School Responsibilities

HoustonSaint68 said

Haha, that's cool. But I've had a working lifetime of being trained not to rail against the status quo without a realistic alternative, so it's hard for me to NOT react.

In this case, realism requires acknowledging that the general shirtiness of human nature isn't going to change, and that no more efficient macroeconomic system has yet been invented that takes actual human nature into account.

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There’s too much discussion in here from people who know financial literacy- I’m here to fix that
First let me address the ‘shirtiness’ of human nature and how it relates to the discussion
Hard disagree- human nature is built on tribal development and complex cooperation- ‘shirtiness’ is learned and the chief teacher is power imbalance- how to get/keep power
Obviously wealth is a significant tool in that lesson
Could you ‘teach’ an honest financial literacy class without also explaining how the system is rigged? (Could you teach financial literacy in an anti-CRT state? Florida says yes, I’m not sure)

plus consider those classes would be taught be teachers and if we were good at financial literacy we wouldn’t be teachers…

BUT, I’ve always been an advocate that practice is better than theory- why not give each kid $500 (or whatever amount) at the beginning of freshman year - an incentivize ways to grow/keep that money