marko
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This is one of my biggest complaints about our education system and curriculum. Yeah, retirement is a LONG way off for our high school and college aged population but the earlier we make them aware of the importance of saving the better. Enough with a bunch of the other fluff that's seeped into the modern curriculum, spend at least SOME amount of time on practical adulting skills. </Rant>
Agree. In my (non public) grade school we learned about banking, interest, compounding and such. A lady from the local bank would come in and open savings accounts for us and then once a week, would come back and collect our nickles and bank them for us. (Hello Miss McMann!)
In my (private) high school we had a guy come in every few months from an investment house to talk about general investing, market movements and so on. We even had an investing session every other week where we "invested" play money and tracked our wins and losses.
Sadly, I suspect that the public school system has an extreme aversion to discuss anything of a financial nature.