po-stiiing

I have been very not-postingish lately.

There have been times that I've thought of things I wanted to write about, but I was usually in the car.

I did, however, want to comment on the sad lack of financial-planning education in our public schools. It's an issue that came to my attention a number of years ago, when I was working at the Catskill Regional Teacher Center. There was a group trying to get some grant funds to start a program locally... I remember applauding their efforts, and simultaneously wishing that they weren't needed.
Somebody higher up should see that it's in our country's best interest to teach kids how to save, how to balance a checking account, how to invest money, how to keep credit card bills low, how to contribute to retirement accounts, etc.

For example, most of the students I interact with have absolutely no idea how to write or endorse a check. Seems very odd that it should fall to me to teach them. They've read Shakespeare, they've written research papers, they've studied world history and economics, they've learned foreign languages and mastered musical instruments. -And then they had someone open a bank account for them, and they're wandering around with ATM cards and checkbooks, completely at a loss as to what to do with them.

The more I think about it, the more it seems like some huge governmental conspiracy to keep the rich kids on top (cause their families will pass down the required financial knowledge), and the kids from poor families clueless and left behind.

Or maybe that's too cynical of me.