[nanamom]

I had a senior high class do a project one year where they had to budget for a year including all bills, food, fun, etc. I had some new "catastrophe" happen each month to unbalance their budget and I set up credit card accounts with the school store for them at a major interest rate as well as insisted on savings and checking accounts also through the store. Every week they had to check all the sales and make a grocery list etc. It was an eye opener for all of them. I remember one very sweet intelligent girl going nuts in my office because I had just handed her a bill to have her garbage picked up. She thought it just happened. One month we planned a funeral and they were shocked. It was very educational for all of them and I hope helped as they went into the world. I would have preferred to do it earlier in their school career but that was when I got them. If the school doesn't do it there is no reason why a parent can't.