Wow. For all those adults out there who think teens couldn’t be bothered to consider their financial futures: You need a wake up call. At least you do if you’re living in Olympia, WA.
73 students in Ms. Fabritius and Ms. Elam’s classes at Capital High school benefited from the Investor Protection Trust sponsored and Dept. of Financial Insitutions Consumer University presentation. Learning all about saving and investing and how to acheive short and long term financial goals, students were blown away by how easy it is to accumulate long term rewards if they begin to consistently save and invest for the future while they’re young.
The number of students that expressed a desire to begin saving for the future now far outnumbered those who didn’t. Teachers like Ms. Fabritius and Ms. Elam are inspiring students to make a change by bringing this important, non-commercial information in to the classroom.