I was thinking....

....like I usually do and came to the conclusion that I may want to get into teaching. Hold your horses, not just any teaching but a specific sector for education that I feel is highly passed over in the education.  Finance, high school finance prep courses.  We are talking pre-college courses where the focus is on everything your parents didn't teach you. I think I want to prepare kids for the "real world" full of student loans, credit cards and money.  Face it folks, we live in America where status, fashion and excess are on display daily.

As I think back, I don't recall any finance courses that prepared me for the rigors of college loans and credit card debit.  Either your parents taught you or they didn't is the mantra most live by.  But how much can parents really do? They work, provide for the family, preach values and try and get their youngsters ready for the real world. Parents are not He-Man and Sheera, they are human beings with a full plates, they can't teach their kids EVERYTHING.

I come from a family with many wonderful people to help guide my way.  My mother was a single mother. The reason she got into education was to keep an eye on me at school, go figure.  My Aunt Kiko didn't get into teaching unitl later in life, my Aunt Cindy was a substitute in the Evergreen School District (if I recall correctly) and my ever amazing Uncle John was and still is involved in educational process (he taught CWP at Prairie High School and continues to be involved with the educational process with a nationwide entity) and last but not least, my cousins Mylei, Jamie and Gabriel who all work for a school district.  I don't know if it is my calling but I do believe that there needs to be more information and education available to high schoolers who are about to enter the job and college world.

What do you think? Where you properly educated in the world of finance when you were in high school?