I think it’s an outrage that there is no place that children are exposed to basic financial concepts of savings investment, dollar cost averaging, compounding, responsible and appropriate debt management – unless they seek it out extracurricularly or in college.
Clearly, the underlying issues are ones we hear every day. Whether we have raised our children with less personal responsibility than in prior generations or it is simply more visible in today’s hyper-communicative world, I don’t know, but the financial discipline that marked my young adulthood seems to be somewhat murky today.