MONROE - The Monroe school board approved a new class Monday to help seventh-grade students learn more about financial and career skills for the 21st Century.
The class will teach students to analyze their rights and responsibilities as consumers and apply the knowledge they learned in school to help them make financial decisions in the future.
Among the concepts the students will learn are family and personal budgeting, saving and investing, employability skills and consumer economics.
The students will develop a career path by examining educational requirements, job responsibilities, employment trends and opportunities within different careers; design a budget based on wants and needs; explain the relationship between saving and investing; explore how business works; define consumer goods and services and explain teen spending impacts; and identify consumer rights and responsibilities when purchasing products.
Curriculum coordinator Jennifer Thayer said the district won't have to hire any additional staff for the class, which is planned to begin next fall.
She said all seventh-grade students will take the nine-week class during the school year.
The class will teach students to analyze their rights and responsibilities as consumers and apply the knowledge they learned in school to help them make financial decisions in the future.
Among the concepts the students will learn are family and personal budgeting, saving and investing, employability skills and consumer economics.
The students will develop a career path by examining educational requirements, job responsibilities, employment trends and opportunities within different careers; design a budget based on wants and needs; explain the relationship between saving and investing; explore how business works; define consumer goods and services and explain teen spending impacts; and identify consumer rights and responsibilities when purchasing products.
Curriculum coordinator Jennifer Thayer said the district won't have to hire any additional staff for the class, which is planned to begin next fall.
She said all seventh-grade students will take the nine-week class during the school year.