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wanderingrichard said:
"Younger people really need to educate themselves in financial planning and get professional help along the way."

(I had something a lot longer written out in response to this, but it came out way wrong.) I do agree we need to teach that to our kids

Bear in mind: Our schools used to teach (1970's through -80's) our kids how to run a budget, balance a check book, and make a household run cheaply amd efficiently. That was Consumer Math and Home Economics and part of the state mandated curriculum at the time where I mostly grew up.

Do you know of any public school system, regionally and currently, that teaches even those basics let alone offer some type of financial planning classes even as night courses for adults? That'd be a major step in the right direction
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Aaaahhhh I remember those classes, getting $10 per month allowance from my parents, getting piggy banks from the banks and if I wanted something I needed to go earn imoney e.g. cutting lawns. A high school class introduced me to the stock market. Home Ec has been replaced by the Food Network and YouTube. My dad taught me about financial planning.

Paychecks, company pensions, and eventually 401k's, IRAs, with limited choices, if any. Life was a lot simpler back then.

I am not sure if the younger generation even knows what a check book is. They sure know about credit/debit cards, cash transfer applications, and buy now and pay later schemes.

I am not aware of those classes in public schools now. I am fully cognizant of credit cards being handed out like candy to those entering college that have no clue about them. Yikes!

I am somewhat aware of financial planning and try to help educate my wife and kids. Eyes glaze over pretty quickly. I even have trouble keeping up with all the changes.

Thank goodness for CPAs and certified financial planners.
 
wanderingrichard said:
"Younger people really need to educate themselves in financial planning and get professional help along the way."

(I had something a lot longer written out in response to this, but it came out way wrong.) I do agree we need to teach that to our kids

Bear in mind: Our schools used to teach (1970's through -80's) our kids how to run a budget, balance a check book, and make a household run cheaply amd efficiently. That was Consumer Math and Home Economics and part of the state mandated curriculum at the time where I mostly grew up.

Do you know of any public school system, regionally and currently, that teaches even those basics let alone offer some type of financial planning classes even as night courses for adults? That'd be a major step in the right direction
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Competencies…
I still have my dot matrix printout when I attended school in the late 70s/early 80s.
This and having grandparents a couple of generations away from Oregon homesteaders served me well thru life.
😉

Ps: I was going thru boxes in the garage. I still had my tax returns and W-2s from every job I have had since 1981.

How the hell did we survive on $8 grand a year in the mid-80s?😳
 
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When you guys say your schools used to, but no longer do, why is that? Didn’t parents pay attention to the school curriculum they sent their kids to? To what the State Board of Education deemed as necessary education, the local school boards? Anyone can serve on school boards.
I agree it should be taught, rather that than sports. But it takes parents standing up for children’s rights. Credit cards given to kids without teaching them financial i? Parents fault.
Each generation since the 60/70’s has contributed to what we have now.
 
Fourbtgait said:
When you guys say your schools used to, but no longer do, why is that? Didn’t parents pay attention to the school curriculum they sent their kids to? To what the State Board of Education deemed as necessary education, the local school boards? Anyone can serve on school boards.
I agree it should be taught, rather that than sports. But it takes parents standing up for children’s rights. Credit cards given to kids without teaching them financial i? Parents fault.
Each generation since the 60/70’s has contributed to what we have now.
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School boards a few years would consider you terrorists and ban ya if ya spoke out. 😳😉
 
Home Economics history:

Whatever Happened to Home Economics?

Lately, you may have considered tightening your home budget, planting a vegetable garden in your yard, eating at home, making food from scratch instead of out of the box, teaching your kids instead of hiring a tutor, mending your sweater instead of buying a new one, or updating your home to be...
magazine.wsu.edu magazine.wsu.edu

Standardized curriculum/testing and women's liberation were part of it....
 
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wanderingrichard said:
"Younger people really need to educate themselves in financial planning and get professional help along the way."

(I had something a lot longer written out in response to this, but it came out way wrong.) I do agree we need to teach that to our kids

Bear in mind: Our schools used to teach (1970's through -80's) our kids how to run a budget, balance a check book, and make a household run cheaply amd efficiently. That was Consumer Math and Home Economics and part of the state mandated curriculum at the time where I mostly grew up.

Do you know of any public school system, regionally and currently, that teaches even those basics let alone offer some type of financial planning classes even as night courses for adults? That'd be a major step in the right direction
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Schools teach victimhood and dependence. That's the only path to socialism. Independence, rugged individualism, and American exceptionalism are no longer celebrated.
 
How remote work may not be the best for newer workers entering the workplace.

www.cnbc.com

Remote work career risks for Gen Z are 'subtle, but material,' Harvard professor says: How to avoid the pitfalls

Forgoing the office can have detrimental "scarring" impacts on young workers. Here's how to navigate the benefits and drawbacks of remote work.
www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com

With AI becoming more prevalent, take every advantage one can. Out of sight could result in out of mind.

Note: I had the later on my mind when I worked in closed environments.
 
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RCF said:
Home Economics history:

Whatever Happened to Home Economics?

Lately, you may have considered tightening your home budget, planting a vegetable garden in your yard, eating at home, making food from scratch instead of out of the box, teaching your kids instead of hiring a tutor, mending your sweater instead of buying a new one, or updating your home to be...
magazine.wsu.edu magazine.wsu.edu

Standardized curriculum/testing and women's liberation were part of it....
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I thought the result of women's lib was that boys could then take Home Ec and girls could take shop. At least that was the switch in my small school district. After I graduated of course, but my younger sister experienced it.
 
Fourbtgait said:
Well good for both of you.
In Texas, home ec was girls cooking, sewing, etc.
Boys took shop.
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We had shop too... being a small school and mostly ag focused helped in that everyone got at least 1 year of Home Ec (8th grade) and a year of combined shop skills, (wood metal, etc.) in 9th grade. By 10th we could go to a split curriculum vocational school which many did.
 
FinLuver said:
Competencies…
I still have my dot matrix printout when I attended school in the late 70s/early 80s.
This and having grandparents a couple of generations away from Oregon homesteaders served me well thru life.
😉

Ps: I was going thru boxes in the garage. I still had my tax returns and W-2s from every job I have had since 1981.

How the hell did we survive on $8 grand a year in the mid-80s?😳
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Was a lot less for me as a single soldier in that time making roughly $380 a month.
 
RCF said:
How remote work may not be the best for newer workers entering the workplace.

www.cnbc.com

Remote work career risks for Gen Z are 'subtle, but material,' Harvard professor says: How to avoid the pitfalls

Forgoing the office can have detrimental "scarring" impacts on young workers. Here's how to navigate the benefits and drawbacks of remote work.
www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com

With AI becoming more prevalent, take every advantage one can. Out of sight could result in out of mind.

Note: I had the later on my mind when I worked in closed environments.
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Love it. Like a lot of others, myself included, you do best work when left alone ?
 
FinLuver said:
School boards a few years would consider you terrorists and ban ya if ya spoke out. 😳😉
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This is so true! One of our illustrious SB directors was caught spacing on his cell phone by a community member during a SB meeting. Supt. put a "No Trespass Order" on said community member.
 
fatbillybob said:
Schools teach victimhood and dependence. That's the only path to socialism. Independence, rugged individualism, and American exceptionalism are no longer celebrated.
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They also taught that Socialism, Capitalism, Communism, etc. were types of ideologies in and of themselves. And yes, it is/was their leaders that make or brake those ideologies.
 
Anyone remember, "No child left behind" which has morphed into "Common Core Standards" and teacher evaluations based on teaching to a standardized test.
 
Times change. It use to be public education was to help build well rounded productive citizens. They even had a class called Drivers Ed. They taught you how to drive.
There wasn’t the short sightedness of college is the only path after graduation. Some went into the military, some started apprenticeships with different companies, some partied on with part time jobs behind a counter and then some went to community college or the universities. High schools weren’t tied down to a score of how many graduates moved on to college. Many schools have dropped their auto, metal, and wood shops. Business and Accounting was a class offered that I took in high school. I don’t think that is offered at many schools any more. The computer/tech changed a lot of that. Having a hard time imagining dropping 150-200k for a college education when the major they study might be an obsolete field for employment 5-7 years after they graduate.
 
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