Start Requiring Financial Classes in High School

Give people a real chance

It is ridiculous that kids in school can quote Shakespeare, and understand the Pythagorean theorem, while knowing Onomatopoeia , but know nothing about finance.

We live in a world that worships money. Wouldn’t it make sense to raise kids who understand money and how to grow it and use it?

The day kids enter high school they should start financial training. They should be required to have a bank account and beginning investments for college and retirement. The should learn how to start a business, and what sort of business or career they would like.

The kids could study positive financial and business concepts. Learning the philosophies and methods of leaders, who have succeeded.

The government, with laws or policies could get financial institutions to help students. They could get investment firms to assist. And why not? It would bring them more income as well.

Money could be invested in the programs to help low income kids get started. Money which is used in America instead of sent overseas. Money to help get families started on a good path.

This sort of program could help kids, families and generations rise up out of poverty. 

It could create more businesses for those inclined, and more jobs for those who leave school and don’t have an entrepreneurial mindset. 

At the very least, they would know how to buy a house, take care of themselves financially and have a retirement plan in place that could supplement a failing social security system.

It would give people a good start. A chance to do something else with life instead of begging for a job and hoping to earn enough money to survive, while raising a family and future.

In his book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, Robert Kiyosaki, points out the difference between his real father, a school teacher and another man he also called father who was wealthy.

His real father was broke all the time. He had faith in the system which taught you to go to school, then go to college and get a job. And he remained broke, in debt and defeated for life.

That is the system millions of Americans are trapped in. A system where we are just slaves of cheap labor, mistreated, and controlled. Lives hanging above a chasm of despair, and fear that if we lose our jobs or get sick and cant work we are ruined. Just beating ourselves to death for pennies on the dollar.

But, Kiyosaki explains that his “Rich Dad” created wealth. He built things that created income for himself. Even if he lost everything He just built it back. He used his money to generate more money. While being his own boss.

This same concept can be taught in schools, instead of forcing kids to learn things that won’t even buy them a cup of coffee when they are homeless.

Under this program, when a child leaves school, they can choose to start a business or get a job or go to college or trade school. The same as today. But, they have more tools and knowledge available to them to be able to succeed in whatever direction they choose to go in. They also have accounts, investments, retirement and money saved up for college, or to start a business.

They will also have knowledge of a direction to go in. They will know what they want to be when they grow up. They will have several options in mind.

I wish there was something like this when I was in school. Not an elective, or some extra curricular group. But, a class that was required the same as Math, Science or P.E.. A class as important as health classes. Because poverty generates stress and disease. Poverty destroys our society and creates division.

It makes me sick to think that my entire success as a human being rests in whether or not I understood algebra. I have lived for years and have never come up against algebra. But, I have faced poverty. I have wished I had known about investments when I was 12. I could be retired today, or running a business.

But, I followed the path of failure and slavery.

Now we can get into why such classes don’t exist.

It’s not like I’m some super genius, and no one has ever thought of this before.

The reason is because school has been twisted to become a factory for creating highly educated, easily controllable wage slaves. Smart enough to understand instruction. But, not smart enough to realize their condition or change it. We are taught to be good workers for life, and have all the philosophies that help support it and feel good about it.

If everyone is rich and free and can choose what to do in life, who will clean the toilets? Who will wash the dishes? Who will pick the fruit? It’s not a coincidence.

Working for yourself is freedom

People working for themselves cannot be as easily controlled and taxed.

See?

Required financial classes in school designed to teach wealth creation, like I have suggested can help to set people free. It can generate wealth that can help others and grow the economy as well.

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