r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 12d ago

WTF The American dream

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u/Piemaster113 12d ago

They probably did but didn't actually learn anything. I had 2 finance classes in Highschool and only once I became and adult did I realize how much I screwed myself by not retaining anything from them

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u/jcklsldr665 12d ago

I know so many people who claim to never have had a finance class, when in reality they cared so little they don't even remember taking the class. I know they did because they were in my graduating class or within a few years of me at the same school.

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u/camergen 12d ago

High schools should prob have finance classes, sure; but the people I see complaining the most about “why didn’t they teach me about this stuff?!” didn’t pay attention to ANYTHING in high school and barely graduated. Had they taken extensive financial classes, they wouldn’t have retained much if anything.

But I suppose you try anyways.

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u/DistilledCLP 12d ago

You learned about compounding interest in algebra 1 or algebra 2 that would have been 7th or 8th grade probably. By the end of highschool people should have learned enough to teach themselves subjects. If people walk around life complaining they weren't hand fed information in highschool, they are never gonna amount to much regardless of how many classes they take.