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Why school didn't teach you about money | Answer In Progress
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The reality is that it isn't feasible for school to teach you (hand hold) everything you will need to know throughout your life.You WILL need to learn many things on your own or apply what you already do to situations that were not covered in class. The problem is that most people aren't really given the intellectual tools that are needed to learn those things or how to apply what they know to novel situations. i.e how you would go about learning outside of a highly structured environment, how you would apply what you know to new situations that your current knowledge should be sufficient to handle.
Sure you can't prepare students for everything life will throw at them.
But right now they don't even teach basic economics, like what is deficit spending, what is fractional banking, and how it lead to hyper inflation every time throughout the history of humanity.
That's what I call keeping people intentionally dumb about the topic.
I am a tutor that works with highschool and college students. Do you have any idea how often I find out the reason why a student is struggling with new material is because 10 years ago they missed something very important and the concepts that they don't understand have been piling up ever since because of that? If you guessed "depressingly often" you are correct. You cannot teach new material if the foundation of knowledge and skills it is based on has cracks in it.
Shouldn't you report that to the head of school?
He should be able to know in which grade that topic should have been teached.
And then slap the corresponding teacher on the wrist for not doing their job correctly?
I tutor remotely which means I get students from all over the country and outside of it. It would be infeasible for me to track down every school that failed them and personally inform them of that. I do what I can to fix things but it is a lot like trying to put out the sun by firing a squirt gun at it.
Oh I see.
Still thank you for teaching the next generation.
It's under appreciated,
but oh so important work that you're doing,
keep it up! :)