Add financial literacy to curriculum

There is a variety of subjects in schools today, many of which have been grandfathered in, i.e. algebra, music, art, etc. Many of these subjects keep getting, year after year, approved for presentation to the students.

The Florida Senate is pushing to have a one-semester course on financial literacy placed in the high school curriculum. The argument against this is that students have too many electives from which to choose today.

Besides English and basic math, name me one other subject, other than how to think and reason, which is not in our state high school curriculum, that, on a daily basis, we use a majority of our waking day that is more prominent than financial literacy.

Wisconsin has a kindergarten through 12th-grade curriculum on financial literacy. Wisconsin is lightyears ahead of Florida in providing imperative information to its youth that will follow them the rest of their lives.

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