Re-Blog: Yearning For Home Ec

I got at this point before in a post about Suze Orman, but The Daily Beast has a story today from college sophomore (not sure why that matters, but they hammer that point home) Zac Bissonnette that addresses the fact that, hello, high school kids need to be taught life skills:

"One of my biggest complaints about my high school education—and there were many—was the absence of a home economics class. I don’t mean home ec in the baking-and-ironing sense. I mean a class that teaches young people to responsibly handle their personal and family finances.

I went to a school that prided itself on its commitment to the value of a "classical education," and required every student to take two years of Latin. At the same time, the faculty was all too happy to send kids off to the lion's den of adulthood without any knowledge of credit cards, student loans, the stock market, or how to purchase a car."