Re: What do You Guys Want to See in an Independence Training Center
Why the ins and outs of taxes are not taught in high school (at the latest) is beyond me. Being able to write essays on how a piece of literature has something to do with sex because it has trees in it, and trees are long, hard, and produce fruit, is clearly far more important to teach students than how to not get arrested for evading the taxes they barely knew existed.
(Disclaimer: I actually liked high school English. This does not mean that people get more value from learning how to make literature mean whatever they want it to through some Cabala-esque symbol shenanigans than they would get from learning boring-but-necessary skills. Maybe the accountant lobby has something to do with it, because it's not like adding a conspiracy theory ever made a paragraph worse, right?)
In fifth grade, my math teacher did actually take a day to teach the class how to write checks. This is where pre-tertiary financial education ended. And being that writing checks while blind is somewhat challenging[1], it's hard to say it was especially helpful.
[1] I have seen something like a signature guide, but for checks. I think that was at WSB? For the 5 seconds I had to look at it, I was trying to remember that lesson in fifth grade, so as to identify which section was for what.
There wasn't anything financial taught at LCB, and that's a little bit worrying. Mostly I was told I shouldn't cash checks at Wal-mart. But it was the first time I'd ever needed to cash a check (or use a card, for that matter), so it wasn't completely useless in that regard. I got the impression that asking would have resulted in advice, but mostly I just got sent on a travel assignment to a bank once, and since it was conveniently located, just started cashing all the checks there.
-- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
