Should Economics Be Taught In High School Essay

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Financial Literacy class is needed to make sure that every student is ready for the harsh world that awaits them after graduation, whether they find a good paying job or they end up in huge amounts of debts, believe me or not this can be prevented.For example this teacher who teaches in Sunset High School in Dallas believes and succeeded in testing the children for the harsh world that awaits them. Many say that economics should be a class because of the fact that students aren’t prepared after they graduate. So many suggest that this should be passed in the law and should be required in all schools to be a part of their curriculum. I personally think that it should why?. (1) In the sources that I have read one fact remains to be true: That students aren’t prepared to go out to the “real world”. (2) In the recent studies in 2009 Michael S. Gutter succeeded to prove that students from schools that teaches economics ended up with less credit cards that were maxed out instead of the average college student that had maxed credit cards.(3)Many people participated in the 2009 survey conducted by the researchers in New York which proved that many americans regret that they never learned about the financial …show more content…

Are you gonna use the things you learned in that class and apply it to your daily life after graduation? A study proves that even though you had financial literacy class in the past you can merely handled the problems of finance in real life. In the year 2009 a business school did a research consisting of three professors: Daniel Fernandes, John G Lynch Jr. and Richard Netemeyer, this professors are considered to be top of the line, and in their research it is proven that merely 3% of people who studied or had a class about financial literacy knows how to handle money. It proves that even though you studied if you can’t apply it to your lifestyle it is