{"id":459,"date":"2015-10-28T17:40:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pamkrueger.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2018-12-20T14:33:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T14:33:03","slug":"story-of-the-week-6-personal-finance-lessons-we-wish-were-taught-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pamkrueger.com\/story-of-the-week-6-personal-finance-lessons-we-wish-were-taught-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of The Week: 6 personal finance lessons we wish were taught in school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/personalfinance\/2015\/10\/26\/6-personal-finance-lessons-we-wish-were-taught-school\/74635904\/\">6\u00a0PERSONAL\u00a0FINANCE LESSONS WE WISH WERE TAUGHT IN SCHOOL<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a former high school math teacher, I could ramble off a list of 100 financial lessons that we\u00a0<em>should<\/em>\u00a0be teaching in school. However, I think that more lessons about compound interest could be beneficial \u2014 but unfortunately no significant time is typically spent on the topic until college-level mathematics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Watch now: <\/strong>This is what happens when a 15-year-old learns how to invest<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gCTEPzSjvVw\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6\u00a0PERSONAL\u00a0FINANCE LESSONS WE WISH WERE TAUGHT IN SCHOOL As a former high school math teacher, I could ramble off a list of 100 financial lessons that<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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