Will somebody please think of the children!

lemonjelly

Emy1501 wrote: »

Dont you think that kids should be taught about personal finance by someone who has shown they are capable of running their own finances? The government doing this is a bit like getting Fred the Shred and his old lot going into schools to advise on how to run a business.

I think they should be taught by someone who understands the subject, is passionate about it, is a good communicator, & who has their interests at heart.

I really don't think there is any contradiction in the government introducing something like this as part of the curriculum.

It shows an intention to address a lot of the underlying issues imo.

PrivatisetheNHSnow

lemonjelly wrote: »

I think they should be taught by someone who understands the subject, is passionate about it, is a good communicator, & who has their interests at heart.

Who would that be? The banker and government scum are only interested in stealing other people's money.

pipkin71

lemonjelly wrote: »

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/pns/DisplayPN.cgi?pn_id=2010_0075

Seems somebody already has, & our hosting big fella :money: is throwing his weight behind the campaign to improve financial education for the current youth.

Hopefully, this could promote much more financial responsibility, & discourage such an over-reliance on credit, potentially reducing the risk of future credit crunch style scenarios...

Many schools have been using these resources for quite a while:

http://www.pfeg.org/

I also use them with my DDs [we home ed], so money management has been going on, but who knows how many schools take advantage of the resources out there?

In all though, it makes sense to give children an understanding of finances so that they can make wiser choices as adults and not rely on credit as much as it appears adults are now

shane42

children should be seen and not heard!
they should also be taught some manners before teaching them about finances.

Emy1501

lemonjelly wrote: »

I think they should be taught by someone who understands the subject, is passionate about it, is a good communicator, & who has their interests at heart.

I really don't think there is any contradiction in the government introducing something like this as part of the curriculum.

It shows an intention to address a lot of the underlying issues imo.

The government need people to spend money to get us out of the mess. Their curriculam therefore is highly unlikely to advise the young of today to be prudent with their money.

More likely it will be borrow today and worry how you pay it off another time.

It does not matter how passionate the teacher is, if they do not follow the government way of teaching it then they will be out on their ear.

Many schools get poor Ofsted results for not following the government line even though these schools are producing much better pupils than the schools that are getting the great grades.