California high school students might need to add another class in order to graduate if lawmakers certify a proposal that would add financial literacy to the list of graduation requirements.
However, some schools in the Sacramento area are already offering these types of courses. Mesa Verde High School in Citrus Heights is one of those schools and they have seen some great results.
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The DoD high school I went to in Germany offered a class to juniors and seniors called either Modern Living or Independent Living, I don't remember which, but it was a popular class with the students.
They taught us shit like balancing a checkbook, making a budget and how to stick to it, paying bills, and smart shopping. There were other things as well such as changing a tire, jumping a battery and basic first aid - stuff you might need to do on any given day.
It was actually a pretty enjoyable class, one of the few I actually looked forward to every day. It damned sure beat the hell out of failing algebra.
Kalifornia 'financial literacy': How To Apply For Welfare because we kicked all jobs out of the state.
ReplyDeleteEesy - You go downa offis and axe the nice lady to fill out the forms for you, because the public skools were too busy teaching DEI and CRT to teach you reding and riting.
DeleteHow many kids are going to be socially promoted through this class, because they don't know enough arithmetic to even understand a checkbook?
Had such a class as a senior in high school 1969 - 1970. Best thing I ever learned and the only A+ I ever earned.
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These are classes that should be requirements for public office...
ReplyDeleteThat’ll never happen.
DeleteAll through high school, I took metal shop, wood shop, auto shop, (mandatory minimum one full year in one of those), home economics, business law. Two years of the two latter and half a year in public speaking were mandatory.
DeleteThat's on top of 4 years mathematics, four years civics/American history, minimum one year foreign language,
Public school, Orange County, CA 1970s
Which? I was Loara 1971-73.
DeleteIf they require everyone to be financially literate then how will the Democrats maintain control?
ReplyDeleteMaybe it should be a requirement to hold office first
ReplyDeleteI had the same class back in 79. It also included how to fill out a simple tax form.
ReplyDeleteAs part of passing grade in 10th grade economics, students had to show they had applied for and received a SS card and had opened a savings account in their name.
DeleteHell the Elementary school I went to outside Ellsworth AFB, SD taught us that shit in the 6th grade for fucks sake...hell, me an Army Vet I had hired and worked with went to the local Wally World to pick something or other in a Southwest Dallas Metroplex suburb and the young brother at the Auto Counter closed the register before he gave us our change so when he reopened the register drawer he couldn't figure out our change until we told him....school choice should be federalized but it'll never happen....can't close the Gubmint globalist\socialist\marxist\LGBTQLMNOP Training and Indoctrination centers....
ReplyDeleteAdding this one requirement to the current system will throw it into chaos. To be financially literate the pupils and the teachers would first need to be fluent in reading, writing, mathematics, US civics, history and comprehension between the subjects. Most under their current system are not prepared.
ReplyDeleteFinancial literacy will be declared racist in 3...2...1...
ReplyDeleteLOL! I can see them justifying that. It's in line with personal responsibility being racist.
DeleteGrowing up in small town Northern California in the 80's, we had a class like that we required to graduate. They even taught how to fill out our tax forms!
ReplyDeleteHow about they make ACTUAL literacy a requirement instead? Because it's clearly NOT a requirement now. The only real requirement for graduation from high school, from what I've seen, is that you show up to enough classes for the school to get their funding. 'cause its certain that there's no requirement to be able to add, subtract, or read or write your own name.
ReplyDeleteThe public school system gets worse every year. The only inarguable good they do is babysitting for two-income but still poor families, and they to an absolutely piss poor job of that. Talk about poor hours and a shitty pickup policy! But suggest getting rid of it? People freak.
SOO... Replace it with a babysitting voucher, watch people abandon it, and abolish it (shoving everyone into using the daycare vouchers) when enrollment falls below 25%. Then start ratcheting the daycare voucher values down until they're phased out too, and that's about the only way I've come up with that I can even remotely envision working to get rid of the "socialism indoctrination system" masquerading as "public education" that we have here in the US. It's just too entrenched in peoples minds.
John G.
The left...who totally control the education curriculum in Kali, will have a very different idea of what "financial literacy" is compared to the real world.
ReplyDeleteRon DeSantis signed a similar bill for FL. I think it goes into effect for high school kids starting this coming fall.
ReplyDelete@FrankP .. that's too freaking funny.
Our high school dropped Home Ec. and instead offered a class called Single Survival. It was meant to do the same things as your Modern Living. Balancing a checkbook, making a budget, grocery list and menu, etc.
ReplyDeleteThey called it Single Survival in order to encourage males to take the class. I took it and it was worth doing.
It's so important it won't be implemented till class of 2030. If passed it will go to the state board of education, which will assign it to a committee and then sub-committees and then will require a consensus from the teachers union, bureaucrats and business leaders and DEI people. Plus it will count as math credit toward graduation.
ReplyDeleteI think there should be a class that is life after high school. But illiterate will be mixed with the literate. I would not assign a grade to the class but make it mandatory. Cover job applications, new patient medical forms, insurance for auto/home/medical, checking, car maintaince, typical monthly budget, taxes for school/city/county/community college/federal/state. Drill into them that the government does not have money but it is the taxpayers. Why school/city bonds increase your house/rent payments. Pensions vs 401ks. I think hearing the teacher may sink in later. Explanation of vocational/community/college schools. I did not have such a class.
ReplyDeleteI had an older brother go to college and his advice was to take typing class in high school. It paid off big time. I was so-so but it was entertaining along the way.
ReplyDeleteThis is a true story. Some folks have accused me of making this up, but I know what happened. In my senior year of high school, I took a class called Computer Math, which was a programming class. I went to the guidance counselor and tried to get into the typing class because I judged the value to be worth it. I was told that men don't type, only their secretaries type. So, I never learned touch typing. I feel like a dinosaur.
DeleteAt the same school and same time frame as my commentary in the post, I took typing. I was one of three boys in the class. What was amazing was my typing teacher in Germany was my mother's typing teacher in Modesto CA 18 years earlier.
DeleteIn 9th grade, myself and one other guy were the only one to take typing class with a bunch of girls. I knew that it would serve me later, and it did.
DeleteWhen I had to write term papers later, I was able to type them much faster than if I hand wrote everything out.
I took typing. The teacher was a man of about sixty. He'd walk up and down the aisles with an 18 inch ruler.
DeleteHis mantra was, The paper you are copying goes on the right. Keep your eyes to the right, do not look at the typewriter.
If he caught you too many times looking at the typewriter, he'd thwack you on the shoulder. Then use you as an example to the class.
I learned to type at 65 wpm without mistakes. In college I earned a good chunk of dough typing papers for other students. Before that, mine were the only typed papers among the students.
I had bought a Brother typewriter. No was was I going to hand write all the papers in college.
In Junior High around 1965, I went to a demo of the local college's computer, and knew what my career was going to be! So typing was my first elective class, in a room full of girls and manual typewriters. I can't brag about my typing speed - I was very uncoordinated until a few years after puberty - but it was much better than it would have been with no training. That was a good decision, although I wound up working mainly with hardware rather than software, and with "embedded controllers" rather than things people recognize as "computers". I don't type much code, but I've written enough reports and manuals to fill a small-town library.
DeleteOne thing about that class: The teacher (not just typing, but all the business classes) was a very, very old man. In the breaks between classes, he'd put his head down on his desk and take a nap. And amazingly, no one molested him, or even drew on his head with a sharpie! We all chose that class and wanted to learn, so we'd quietly get seated, load paper in the typewriters, and then gently wake him up when we were ready.
I and my siblings were taught early in life like around 5 years old.....by our father! It was simple, if we little kids wanted something like a toy or trinket, my dad (US Marine in WW2 with one eye and a crippled leg where the Japs shot him Bougainville and also a child during the great Depression as well) " Dad would say "IT TAKES MONEY TO LIVE SON! " He and Mom would drilled that in us and has worked well for most of us!
ReplyDeleteTry to remember WHO is teaching matters. Learning financial literacy in a public school, from a public school teacher... may end poorly.
ReplyDeleteI was in the first boys class in my high school for home ec, as they used to call it. Me and my buddies were making fun of it when our coach came by and overheard us. His comment was "you planning on living with your mommies all your life?"
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