The debate whether schools should provide courses for students on how to manage their income or should teach only the core course subjects ,as of late, has been discussed throughout all sects of society. This essay ,then, will discuss the merits, as well as the associated drawbacks, of whether school should either teach about money or not.
On one hand, because of the importance of money nowadays, school can provide an activity-based learning for children to gain knowledge about managing money. While students are learning at school, they may have a chance to buy and sell products that enable them to picture clearly about money. For example, in most primary schools in Thailand, teachers may let their children participate in the students market, an activity where the younger generation can gain knowledge about the value of money in the real world. This action contributed to a clear picture of how to manage income properly by learning through activities. It is clear that school can be a place to teach how to manage the money for the kids to use in their every life in efficient ways.
On the other hand, many parents think that money can be taught in everyday life in which school can only teach a core course only such as math and science. The reason behind that is because there is no place rather than school that can teach such an object, contributing to the waste of time when school thought about money. To illustrate, some kids may want to be a doctor which needs basic math and science to be their basics in the future. They may not want to spend time on unrelated topics of how to manage their money.
In conclusion, schools can have a scheme to build a course for the younger generation about how to manage their income by learning through activities. However, institutions can not ignore how important traditional subjects are. In my perspective, it is a good way for kids to practice managing their money since they were in school but they also need to focus on the basic course that school provides as well.