Why Aren't More Schools Teaching Students How to Balance a Checkbook?
- An important skill that hardly anyone teaches anymore
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Penelope Finkelstein How about how not to wreck the environment, the importance of native plants, not misusing pesticides and herbicides, and just being less of a parasite to the planet in general.
Rebecca Ridgeway My high school offered a choice of either bookkeeping or record keeping (along with several other courses). I don't understand why they say there isn't enough time. A school day and year is pretty much the same. Is it because they are still teaching reading and basic arithmetic in high school because they won't hold anyone back?
Norbert Smith A more important set of skills that schools don't teach any more is how to safely handle a firearm.
Lou Kitz Because then they would understand how taxes work and how they hurt the middle class.
Alex Ray I'm 28, 10 years in workforce, own a house, own a car. I've written maybe two checks in my life. Broadly speaking, there's little use for a checkbook anymore.
John McDermott I have not written a check in 5 years. Maybe the skill is obsolete, or nearly so.
Laurence A. Nadeli Why aren’t medical schools teaching students how to bleed you to cure the common cold?
Jacob Laughbon Not necessary anymore. I used checks most of my life, but now checks are merely a debit transaction. There are no wait times now that would require a balance sheet. You can just look-up youf balance as you go. Financial planning is different. And in today's crazy economic world of non-math, it's almost literally impossible to keep it accurate.
Fred Bates Why not? Too busy teaching gender diversity and revised history... Heaven forbid they learn something useful.
Tanner Terry-Pruvost They do teach that. Usually an optional course.
This is hardly the big picture issue tho lmao
Rachael M. Tillman Do schools not have Consumer Math anymore? I took that as a useful elective senior year and along with chequebook balancing, learned about interest rates, the stock market, budgeting, and taxes. I liked it actually, had good teachers. Anyway, a lot of kids took CM and as I worked all through college and opened my own bank account at 18, my Mum made sure I knew the basics of check writing and such.
Rebecca Ridgeway My high school offered a choice of either bookkeeping or record keeping (along with several other courses). I don't understand why they say there isn't enough time. A school day and year is pretty much the same. Is it because they are still teaching reading and basic arithmetic in high school because they won't hold anyone back?
Norbert Smith A more important set of skills that schools don't teach any more is how to safely handle a firearm.
John McDermott I have not written a check in 5 years. Maybe the skill is obsolete, or nearly so.
Jacob Laughbon Not necessary anymore. I used checks most of my life, but now checks are merely a debit transaction. There are no wait times now that would require a balance sheet. You can just look-up youf balance as you go. Financial planning is different. And in today's crazy economic world of non-math, it's almost literally impossible to keep it accurate.
Fred Bates Why not? Too busy teaching gender diversity and revised history... Heaven forbid they learn something useful.
Tanner Terry-Pruvost They do teach that. Usually an optional course.
Rachael M. Tillman Do schools not have Consumer Math anymore? I took that as a useful elective senior year and along with chequebook balancing, learned about interest rates, the stock market, budgeting, and taxes. I liked it actually, had good teachers. Anyway, a lot of kids took CM and as I worked all through college and opened my own bank account at 18, my Mum made sure I knew the basics of check writing and such.
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