By Mossimo Perry East offers many Career and Technical Education (CTE) classes such as Culinary, Optical Manufacturing, Vision care, and Home Maintenance and Repair. These are great courses that can lead to a future career. But East High also needs a business and financial literacy pathway. These two subjects to me are absolutely vital, especially financial literacy. Many suburban schools offer a plethora of business and financial literacy classes but why not East High? If anything, it should be pushed a lot more in city schools than suburban ones. Financial literacy in the black community needs to be taught and emphasized a lot more than it is now. Currently, at East High, we have 2 business and financial literacy classes such as Career and Financial Management, and Entrepreneurship. In my opinion, CFM needs more depth in the course. Other scholars that I have interviewed have said the course is quite informative on the college aspect and the finances that it comes with such as how to apply for scholarships and the amount of money it would cost to attend a University. Scholars and I have both agreed that there needs to be more depth to the class. The class teaches personality and careers that align with that personality. Why not have someone from a few of the most picked careers come in and speak about the experience they have had with that career? A financial course can include but not be limited to further explaining how to obtain an LLC, the differences between corporations, the benefits of separating your name from a business, and so on. To conclude my thinking, we need to teach and find a way to implement financial literacy into our courses here at East High.
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Ms. Rees
1/31/2023 03:57:41 pm
Thank you for your insights related to these courses and our overall academic program, Mossimo. We are always looking to improve. Meliora.
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Lynn Girven
1/31/2023 04:29:41 pm
I think this should be a part of every graduates requirements to graduate. Well done.
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