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RSS FeedsOntario launches plan to teach high school kids financial skills
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

23 march 2017 14:50:20

 
Ontario launches plan to teach high school kids financial skills
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


Financial literacy, students, curriculum, Ontario, high school, Education Minister Mitzie Hunter, Toronto Youth Cabinet, careersOntario is rolling out pilot projects at 28 high schools aimed at revamping the Grade 10 careers course and laying the groundwork for financial literacy to become part of the curriculum.About 700 students will be involved in the pilots, running until June, and their feedback along with teacher input, will be instrumental in redesigning the new course, expected to be in place for the fall of 2018. While financial skills are a centrepiece, students will also learn entrepreneurship and digital literacy in addition to career and life planning. The plan, to be announced Thursday by Education Minister Mitzie Hunter, comes after repeated calls for mandatory money skills to be taught in high school, including a campaign last year by the Toronto Youth Cabinet which stressed that teens are sorely lacking knowledge about everything from credit cards to filing tax returns.The pilots represent “the first step in modernizing our careers curriculum,” and will make it more relevant by linking students’ goals for post-secondary school and the workplace with money skills like budgeting, planning and saving that will help them get there, Hunter told the Star.They will cost the ministry $142,000.“We want to make financial literacy relatable to students, and to their experience,” says Hunter, noting she’s heard from many youth who wished they’d learned more practical information in the mandatory careers course, which is accompanied by a half-course in civics. “This is a good first step,” says Prakash Amarasooriya, who led the Toronto Youth Cabinet initiative and petition pushing for financial literacy in high school.But he notes there’s still a lot of work to be done to ensure teens leave school with the basic money knowledge they need.Amarasooriya, 24, says his own lack of money sense a ...


 
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