• LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Media needs to juxtapose this news with the latest from Oklahoma requiring teaching Bible in public schools

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      10 months ago

      I did that in my high school economics class. I picked a bunch of finance stocks, including Bear Stearns. Then 2008 happened. All I learned was that if you pick individual stocks, you get fucked. For individual investors, the stock market is a scam.

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        10 months ago

        For individual investors, individual stocks are not a worthwhile risk. Buy a broad scale index fund, realize you won’t get rich but you also won’t lose it all, and build for your retirement.

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        You learned the wrong lesson based on your timing. I’ve invested in like 2013 and I’m so far up six digits. Sure, I dipped during the pandemic, but I sold my bonds and bought more stock which makes me up bigly now.

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        Not so much for stocks, I mean like a better UI spreadsheet client that allows them to go to any period and see ledgers that are intuitively rendered and that lets them sort of experiment with the numbers so they can learn to maneuver things better. Like all their accounts, bills/recurring, paycheques, purchases. All rendered and projected or archived for easy traversal

        Its like GTD: get everything out and externalized in an independant system or locus of reference and it takes most of the anxiety and human error out of it

  • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I remember my financial literary class. It was part of Home Ec. I think it was one class where we learned how to fill out checks.

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    10 months ago

    It won’t help. The real cause is that public school education is so severely underfunded in the US.

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      You’re getting downvoted but my friend is a 5th grade school teacher in California and confirmed to me that for years now when her students get to 5th grade they can’t read or even sound out basic words and she’s required to keep passing them to middle school.

      Teachers all over the US are saying kids can’t read. Combined with the fact that teachers have to strictly follow their curriculums which are not designed for these kids, that means American kids will continue to not develop literacy skills. IMO it’s a valid question to ask: what are we doing about that?