Financial Literacy should be taught to our college students!
I've lived in Mississippi for most of my life; I graduated high school here. I remember feeling so nervous my senior year and the summer before I started college for the first time, because I felt so unprepared. We had spent the past year in school casually discussing what we would do after high school, if we had any college plans, etc. - but I never felt that anyone actually taught me how to do the important things I would need to know to get enrolled in college, to pay for college, save for my future, or budget correctly. I am finding that, unfortunately, this was the standard. Before last year, students in Mississippi were not required to take any College and/or Career Readiness courses to graduate. Thankfully, this has changed! Starting in 2022, Mississippi implemented a year-long College & Career Readiness Course that is now required learning for all students in order to graduate. In this year-long course, students learn everything from c...