I think maybe just an overall class in "Real Life" with a major focus on personal finances.
I remember having issues when selling my car because I had never gotten the title after I had finished paying off the car loan. I had no clue I was supposed to do that or how to do that, etc.
The process of buying a house, basic house maintenance (like what needs to be maintained quarterly, yearly, etc), how to cook basic foods, how to sew a button back on your clothes. How credit cards work, how loans work, basic tax filing, etc.
Some of these things I knew how to do, but others don't.
I don't know that we had a class like that at my HS. If there was, I certainly didn't know about it. I know in Middle School they got rid of Home Ec. a couple years before I started.
I think a class that covers real life should be a mandatory class. You might not have to figure out a physics equation again, but most likely you'll have to balance your checkbook. :)
They had either eliminated Home Ec or it was just middle school when I got to high school. And I would make it mandatory for high school juniors and seniors.
Not sure if theys till do that. We did a small exercise like this in 6th grade, but I think it needs to be more seniot in high school so you have some practical appreciation for the lessons.
I probably would have balked at having to take such a course, but in hindsight I could have been (and still be) spared a lot of angst and grief over badly managed money in my late teens & early/mid 20s. o_O
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I remember having issues when selling my car because I had never gotten the title after I had finished paying off the car loan. I had no clue I was supposed to do that or how to do that, etc.
The process of buying a house, basic house maintenance (like what needs to be maintained quarterly, yearly, etc), how to cook basic foods, how to sew a button back on your clothes. How credit cards work, how loans work, basic tax filing, etc.
Some of these things I knew how to do, but others don't.
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I think a class that covers real life should be a mandatory class. You might not have to figure out a physics equation again, but most likely you'll have to balance your checkbook. :)
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