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New York High Schools Will Offer Personal Finance Education · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: One six point seven nine, Defend with Coby and Christine
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, produce a Christian in the house six
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  Speaker 1: fifty one on this Veterans Day, Thank you Veterans. Shout
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  Speaker 1: out to all the early risers. We got everybody out there, Teachers, students. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: So speaking of school, interesting little tidbit here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is fantastic. Actually starting next year
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  Speaker 2: in New York State coming to the high school curriculum
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  Speaker 2: personal finance education.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful?
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  Speaker 2: Isn't this great?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Why didn't they do this with us back in the day.
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  Speaker 3: We're really going to need that.
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  Speaker 2: They said, students will be introduced to budgeting, managing, credit, saving,
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  Speaker 2: and investing. Wow, and that already more than two dozen
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  Speaker 2: states in the US make personal finance education a graduation requirement.
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  Speaker 2: So first time is coming to New York.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember learning anything about financing at an early age?
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  Speaker 1: The only thing I can think about is elementary school
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  Speaker 1: and a check and learning how.
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  Speaker 3: To write a check.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, they taught us how to write a check.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and junior high.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we ever learned how to write like
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  Speaker 4: we had to learn ourselves. Yeah, we weren't taught that
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  Speaker 4: in st I.
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  Speaker 1: Remember a teacher had a big It was like a
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  Speaker 1: big check, like you when you win the lottery. It
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  Speaker 1: was on the chalkboard. I remember, I vividly remember our
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  Speaker 1: teacher like writing to write the words here and write
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  Speaker 1: the numbers here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was just my school.
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  Speaker 2: But there was like accounting. I think there was accounting
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  Speaker 2: that I took in a major fail. I did not
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  Speaker 2: do well with it at all.
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  Speaker 3: Was it an option like a selective took.
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  Speaker 2: In high school or I probably had to take it.
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  Speaker 2: I probably had to take it. But it didn't teach
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  Speaker 2: you like about budgeting and managing credit saving investing. Wow, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I wish. I mean, those are life skills right there.
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  Speaker 2: I wish we had that.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder why they don't teach it a little earlier
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  Speaker 1: in life, because they say, you know, like kids soak
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  Speaker 1: up languages at a young age. High school is great,
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  Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but hey, how about financing it
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  Speaker 1: third grade?
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  Speaker 4: Well I think that's because it's mommy. It's mommy and
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  Speaker 4: daddy's money. You know, you don't have jobs yet. You know,
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  Speaker 4: in high school you start having your you know, summer
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  Speaker 4: jobs or babysitting, Like I started babysitting at thirteen I
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  Speaker 4: didn't know what's doing with my money?
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  Speaker 3: You put it in a piggyback, right, I went to
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  Speaker 3: the mall exactly right, yeah, right away immediately.
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  Speaker 2: But this is I'm maybe we can get Naomi into it,
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  Speaker 2: like right now, how.
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  Speaker 3: Old does she Well, she'll be six in January, so
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  Speaker 3: maybe we get her on.
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  Speaker 2: By sell Naomi, what tell us what's a trade?
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  Speaker 1: Should get a job at Morgan Stanley by age seven,
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  Speaker 1: help you retire