• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    I seriously don’t understand why we don’t have a mandatory class that covers taxes, T4 slips, investing, labour laws, budgeting, reading nutritional information on foods, etc.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      The nutritional stuff is like 6th-grade science, about the time you should be burning peanuts with a Bunsen burner.

      I’ve seen a few schools that have an elective financials class, but I think they’re still trying to balance checkbooks.

      The problem is it’s just one class, and nobody takes classes seriously in high school. Most of them have forgotten the things that they used to know when they were 20, 30, or even 40 years past their education.

      It’s like we need some kind of driver’s ed test but for living

      edit: 6th grade, no fire in elementary school