Re: “WA treasurer pushes to require financial education for high schoolers” (Dec. 8, Native Information):
In accordance with the Nationwide Endowment for Monetary Schooling, greater than two dozen states require college students to take a private finance class to graduate from highschool.
So I used to be actually inspired to learn The Seattle Instances information report. However why, if accepted, would the monetary literacy requirement not take impact for top schoolers till 2033?
Is that as a result of it should take that lengthy for highschool academics to grasp the monetary literacy wanted to show it? There must be sufficient confirmed and accessible literacy curricula on the market to implement it before later.
What’s the draw back or danger of requiring it sooner? I do know, forgoing the potential for Seattle model speak it to dying and paralysis by evaluation. Like what we did, or didn’t do, by not putting specifically chosen police inside excessive faculties to guard our children.
So what’s to argue about having financially literate and accountable excessive schoolers? Guess we’ll discover out with the eight-year delay.
Please, expensive legislators, on this case, let the push develop into a shove.
Michael Goldenkranz, Seattle
