Comments on: Rudolph: Economic crisis and educating our children http://www.365gay.com/living/rudolph-economic-crisis-and-educating-our-children/ The daily news source for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:01:09 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Daniel http://www.365gay.com/living/rudolph-economic-crisis-and-educating-our-children/comment-page-1/#comment-22325 Daniel Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:50:01 +0000 http://www.365gay.com/?p=3417#comment-22325 This is an entirely accurate point of view and has been for decades. I went to high school in a very well-funded district and we had a very broad curriculum available. But amazingly enough none of it was devoted to personal finance. America's educational system has become so obsessed with teaching high school kids college-level subjects (my town's high school has a radio broadcasting course!!!) but they neglect basic household management as something kids should learn at home. Better that kids should be forced to sit through classes on higher mathematics, that most of them will never use, in the hopes that some will become engineers as adults than teach all the kids how a mortgage works. Given the appalling amount of money we put into the system I think we should be able to demand change. Think this isn't a GLBT issue? Maybe not directly. But consider that even if your a single gay person with no kids and you are a homeowner, as much as 80% of your property tax dollars go to fund your local school district. Schools commonly eat up more money than the rest of a municipal government. Not having kids doesn't exclude us from demanding our tax dollars are spent wisely. This is an entirely accurate point of view and has been for decades. I went to high school in a very well-funded district and we had a very broad curriculum available. But amazingly enough none of it was devoted to personal finance.

America’s educational system has become so obsessed with teaching high school kids college-level subjects (my town’s high school has a radio broadcasting course!!!) but they neglect basic household management as something kids should learn at home. Better that kids should be forced to sit through classes on higher mathematics, that most of them will never use, in the hopes that some will become engineers as adults than teach all the kids how a mortgage works.

Given the appalling amount of money we put into the system I think we should be able to demand change.

Think this isn’t a GLBT issue? Maybe not directly. But consider that even if your a single gay person with no kids and you are a homeowner, as much as 80% of your property tax dollars go to fund your local school district. Schools commonly eat up more money than the rest of a municipal government. Not having kids doesn’t exclude us from demanding our tax dollars are spent wisely.

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