Mandatory Financial Literacy Analysis

The question of whether or not our school systems throughout America should adopt a mandatory financial literacy class has been around for many years now. In Tara Siegel Bernard’s article Working Financial Literacy in With the Three R’s you can see that in 2010 13 states had adopted the class fully into all of their schools and 34 states had added the class into their curriculum, That is a huge growth from the 7 mandatory states and the 28 optional states just three years prior. There is no doubt the course is growing in popularity, but people still argue it’s effectiveness, you need to remember it’s a high school class. There will be a majority of students who barely pass due to lack of interest in the subject, and that’s ok. They will eventually listen to at least one lecture and the small amount of information they learn then sets them above the rest of the students who didn’t take the class.
Another way the attempted to show the ineffectiveness from the course is showing the low test scores, but they refuse to show the test scores of students who didn’t take the course. Is that because …show more content…
The answer is easy, if you want the best for our students, and you understand that high school is somewhat preparing them for the real world, then you should feel obligated to attempt to teach them some form of financial literacy. These students are making huge financial and life choices at such a young age, and not all of them know what they’re really getting themselves into. They’re making the choices to buy new cars, go thousand and thousands of dollars in debt to go to school, and they’re choosing what they want to do in their life and who they want to be. Any help in the situation could change someone's life in a drastic way and you could save a lot of people a lot of money and a lot of stress. Please help our nation's students become the best they could be and add this course to the mandatory curriculum for our