Can you be at Granite State College this Thursday by 10 AM because your help is needed? The State Board of Education will vote on whether to approve an optional financial literacy course for New Hampshire students, and the opposition is expected to be fierce.
Why, you might ask, would anyone oppose such a thing? Do they want your kids to be financially illiterate? Schools are allowed to pretend to be mental health experts, but helping students understand loans, banking, investing, credit cards, insurance, and even doing their taxes is bad.
Prager U. created the course, but it’s non-partisan. There’s nothing in it about right or left, but, but, but…it’s Prager U. That would be why certain ‘someones’ may show up and degrade, demean, and misrepresent the course.
If you’d like a few examples of the videos created by Prager U on financial literacy for kids, you can go here. Credit cards (simple vs. compound Interest). Good vs. bad Credit. Budgeting. Evil right-wing propaganda this is not, although the progs who hate Prager might take issue with this one on taxes.
The idea is to make some of the most uninteresting stuff imaginable (accounting) appealing to kids and young adults who may be blindsided by it when a world they can’t escape comes knocking on their door.
If you can attend the meeting and offer testimony (3 minutes) to support this optional program, that would be great. If attendance is not an option, you can send written testimony to Angela.adams@doe.nh.gov.
Please keep public comments and emails on topic, polite, and brief.
Meetings are held at the NH Department of Education (Granite State College Building) located at 25 Hall St., Concord, NH (unless posted otherwise). The meetings are scheduled 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM; however, meetings can end earlier or later than 3:00 PM depending on agenda items.