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One more comment...I think it is a disgrace that you need 2 years of a foreign language. You live in America. If someone that speaks Spanish or French wants to talk to you, they should learn the language of this country. Oh wait, I forgot, we have to bow and kiss the rears of everyone that comes here. My fault, I forgot.

Teaching students the concept of money is in no way any more subjective than chemistry or Spanish. Schools dont function by allowing the teachers to add their two cents into things; classes are focused around actual books that they have.

The point being made here, is that it IS the schools responsibility. I go to school to get an education. Yes, it should be somewhat diverse but if you HONESTLY think foreign language is more important than getting a comprehensive course in money then i would call you VERY confused. Not to mention you seem to have a pretty wild paranoia with teachers' own personal ideas. If your that worried, im sure you can keep your 5 year old out of the school system and home school him or her till he or she gets older. O wait....... have you ever seen the statistics on homeschooling?

Not too great, really.


Schools should prioritize. Money should come BEFORE calculus or physics......Personally, it should be a double backed course.


There are SO many kids in debt right now that it is not even funny. In fact, i think it is up to like 2,800 bucks a kid now. Thats not good.

And its avoidable-thats the sad part, movealready.

Think about other people besides yourself and your cookie monster.

Not to mention i have no study hall, gym is MANDATORY (look up the definition if you dont comprehend) and lunch is one mod which pretty much means you HAVE to take it.


If your going to hold an opinion on the topic....especially on the opposing side, atleast provide a reason that resembles some sort of truth ;)

SORRY, CAN'T TYPE

What I was trying to type, and should have double checked.
Wow are you misguided. It is impossible for a teacher to teach without imbuing their personal experience. Secondly, I believe that Schools work hand in hand with parents to give their children a complete education. You infer an awful lot. What I'm saying is parents can not and should not rely solely on teachers to prepare their children for the world. It is the parents responsibility to gauge what is being taught in school, and to add; to give the child the best of both worlds.
Now to add onto my statement. Financial skills are very subjective, parents can be conservative,liberal or somewhere between, they can be risk takers or not. That's subjective. Teachers should teach the basics of finance, parents should teach the finer points. I need not worry about others because I will take the time to teach my child about finance, as I'm sure your folks will teach you. It's called responsible parenting and not relying on a broken down school system.
Your not the norm, most kids have a study hall, (a giant waste of time). Gym should be outside the ACADEMIC world, encourage kids to be outside and active and Lunch is another giant waste of time. If you remove study hall,gym and lunch from the academic arena, one could shorten the school day (encourages more focused students) and lenghthen the school year.
Before you jump all over my stuff, I suggest you comprehend and read between the lines better. Also, I suggest not getting personal, it just shows that your immature.

Misguided? Either your stooping down to my level or your pointing the figure at the wrong immature person, buddy.

As for most kids taking study hall.. im just going to laugh at that. Every freshman, sophomore, and junior i personally know does not take a study hall. In fact, its quite the contrary, really. A lot of kids are forced to come in before school starts to take their classes because their days are so packed

As for taking away lunch.... wow. Dont know about you, but i dont believe in starving kids. 7 hours is quite a while-long past the time the average adult indulges on a snack.

As for money-yeah-of course things are going to be subjective. Its the same with health, english, and math. You cant avoid it unless you wish to isolate your kid at home all day.

My point, which you seem to miss amid your bashing of schools, teens, and the curriculum, is that money means more than half the stuff taught at school. Prioritizing works wonders, and thats what schools need to do.

Whether your man enough to let your princess go and be exposed to something other than your radical, fundie views is another story outside my control. All i know is that many, many students know very little when it comes to economics, and that REALLY needs to stop.

If you honestly think im the one blasting you, well, id recommend you go and reread this conversation. Your the one bashing the public school system every chance you get along with taking a stance on not teaching students about money because you cant control it.

Alex, I saw this on the news...thought you'd be interested:

'Don't tase me, bro' tops year's memorable quotes
By Susan Haigh, Associated Press Writer
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — It was the plea heard round the world.

"Don't tase me, bro" — shouted by a Florida college student as officers removed him from a speech by Sen. John Kerry — tops this year's list of most memorable quotes, compiled by the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations.

Second on the list is a quote from Lauren Upton, the Miss Teen America contestant who gave a confused and mangled response to a question about why one-fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a map.

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us," Upton said.

The words of both young people were immortalized in videos posted on YouTube, the video-sharing Web site.

"These new media are spreading these things," said editor Fred R. Shapiro, 53, associate librarian and lecturer in legal research at the Yale Law School. "I'm not listing the most admirable quotes, the most eloquent quotes. It's the most memorable quotes."