8/4/21-Op-ed: Don’t buy the sham argument against teaching personal finance in school
- August 04 2021
- By: info@njcfe.org
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Op-ed: Don’t buy the sham argument against teaching personal finance in school
July 20, 2021 |cnbc.com
As schools across the country prepare for the coming year, which we hope returns to something like a pre-pandemic normal, the financial literacy community will redouble its efforts to get effective financial education into our nation’s classrooms.
After the array of economic uncertainties brought on by a nearly worldwide shutdown, most people are applauding the effort to provide financial education to a new generation of consumers – not only to better prepare them for whatever unexpected crisis happens next, but as an essential life skill.
Still, there are some who believe financial education in the classroom to be ineffective, unrealistic and even misdirected; but we can’t let these misguided notions rob our kids of the opportunity to gain valuable knowledge and money management ability.