If one of the absolute core functions of school is literacy itself and "19 percent of high school grads are functionally illiterate," there needs to be some actual reckoning of current results before stuff is merely added, but it seems no one wants to.
https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1344273542037180416
When people talk about policy like "we need free college for everyone" or "we need to add X to high school" it's like watching a hurricane approaching while your neighbor tells you, shouting over the 90mph winds, that you should really repaint your house soon.
There's a lack of object permanence about things like this which is maybe excusable among uninterested parties but often it seems that politicians and journalists are the 19%.
Hippocrates is famous for the oath ("First, do no harm"), which is good. But the overlooked and more important saying from him is:
"Before you heal someone, ask him if he is willing to give up the things that made him sick."
"Before you heal someone, ask him if he is willing to give up the things that made him sick."
A discussion of how to improve financial literacy has to begin with what we're doing wrong already, not adding yet another thing.
Maybe a better metaphor isn't the hurricane, but an obese person who decides to lose weight, and people just say "Ah, you need to eat acai berries!"
Maybe a better metaphor isn't the hurricane, but an obese person who decides to lose weight, and people just say "Ah, you need to eat acai berries!"
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