Comments on: Ohio High Schools to Include Personal Finance Courses http://www.investingintelligently.com/2008/02/18/ohio-high-schools-to-include-personal-finance-courses/ Not just another (Canadian) financial blog Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:22:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Deborah http://www.investingintelligently.com/2008/02/18/ohio-high-schools-to-include-personal-finance-courses/comment-page-1/#comment-7761 Deborah Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:55:34 +0000 http://www.investingintelligently.com/2008/02/18/ohio-high-schools-to-include-personal-finance-courses/#comment-7761 You have just brought up an excellent point. Out of all graduation requirements, there is not a single requirement for a business class of any kind, not even a personal finance. Some schools have locally developed courses they offer, but it is very short sighted that some business is not included in graduation requirements, and doing taxes and understanding banking deposits and loans ought to be a minimum. We actually do have interest in the grade 8-10 curriculum, compounding in grade 10 where you look at monthly payments and amortization tables, but to cover the whole curriculum you only have time to spend maybe 3 lesson on it and students really aren't ready for it. It simply isn't relevant to them yet and it would be far better to have it in grade 11 or 12. You have just brought up an excellent point. Out of all graduation requirements, there is not a single requirement for a business class of any kind, not even a personal finance. Some schools have locally developed courses they offer, but it is very short sighted that some business is not included in graduation requirements, and doing taxes and understanding banking deposits and loans ought to be a minimum.

We actually do have interest in the grade 8-10 curriculum, compounding in grade 10 where you look at monthly payments and amortization tables, but to cover the whole curriculum you only have time to spend maybe 3 lesson on it and students really aren’t ready for it. It simply isn’t relevant to them yet and it would be far better to have it in grade 11 or 12.

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