Comment on Why school didn't teach you about money | Answer In Progress
Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months agoSure you can’t prepare students for everything life will throw at them.
They don’t even teach basic economics, like what is deficit spending, what is fractional banking, and how it lead to hyper inflation every time throughout the history of humanity.
That’s what I call keeping people intentionally dumb about the topic.
xkforce@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I am a tutor that works with highschool and college students. Students struggle with more basic concepts and you want them to learn basic econ on top of it? You can’t do that unless more fundamental concepts are taught first. Education is based on layers of understanding that depend on each other. If the foundation is shoddy, everything that relies on it will be as well.
Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Shouldn’t you report that to the head of school?
He should be able to know in which grade that topic should have been teached.
And then slap the corresponding teacher on the wrist for not doing their job correctly?
xkforce@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I tutor remotely which means I get students from all over the country and outside of it. It would be infeasible for me to track down every school that failed them and personally inform them of that. I do what I can to fix things but it is a lot like trying to put out the sun by firing a squirt gun at it.
Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Oh I see.
Still thank you for teaching the next generation.
It’s under appreciated,
but oh so important work that you’re doing,
keep it up! :)