I don't think it's very Diamond Shoes to be like "I looked forward to family vacation in a really lovely place, and then stressful shit kept happening and vacation was not as restful and restorative as I hoped it would be." That sucks to have a trip you were looking forward to go all pear-shaped.
Hard agree!
I agree that personal finance classes would be a great addition to the high school curriculum.
California is
on it.
Happy Birthday, Debet!
I'm headed to a family wedding today which involves a full Catholic mass, and even my very Catholic aunt and uncle (who are staying at Mom's with me) are joking about ways we could skip the ceremony and just go to the reception. I will not burst into flames. I will not burst into flames. I will not burst into flames.
Ha, Kristin. Just, you know, bring some bottled water, and if you see smoke...
That sucks to have a trip you were looking forward to go all pear-shaped.
Meant to fourth or fifth or whatever this, Jess.
Dylan took Personal Finance his senior year but unfortunately the teacher was completely checked out and so he didn't get much out of it. (He basically told them to pretend to invest an imaginary $1000 in the first week and track how their choices performed, and then didn't do anything else the entire semester.)
I sort of did take a class like that, but I took it because I was hopeless at math. So, it was, like, me and the pregnant girls and people that came back after juvie and that kind of stuff.
as suburban as I grew up, I expected that they'd be a lot different than me, but maybe just their plans were not as big--well, we see how that worked out on my end, huh?
Since I was, you know, practically starting from zero, or maybe minus 2, I learned a fair bit about finances there, whether it was objectively a good class or not, but I don't think that was the most important thing I got from being there.
Thanks, all!
I did an independent study econ class my senior year, where I had to write a 1-page paper on some academic economics topic. The regular class did more like the stock market game. Pretty sure I got the better end of that deal.
I continue to think we need a 1 semester Highest School for, like, 23 year olds, for all the "we told you this 5 years ago, but you didn't believe us. But now you've thrown out your back a couple times and fucked up with credit cards and done your taxes, so let's go back over it now you get that it's important" stuff
We just had a semester of Free Enterprise that I do not remember one single thing from. I think it was taught by my English teacher but that is all I can recall and I could be making that up.
I'm a terrible aunt E turned 17!
