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Originally Posted by chemgear
Oh man, that was the BEST class ever. We had a former Miss Canada contestant who was just starting her teaching career for that class. It was completely useless as a class - but man, we all looked forward to that course.
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Its all coming together now! When I talk to people (about money) they all say "they should really teach this stuff in school" or similar things. I often take that time to remind them that they do. Its called CALM and while a lot of people are busy skipping class or generally screwing around some of us actually took something away from it! In my class we picked out houses and actually figured out what the down-payment would be and how long it would take us to save that kind of cash up. Pretty eye opening for me as a 15 year old to realise that as a 27 year old for me to own the place I would want would take me roughly that long to afford a down-payment, if I started saving right away!
My CALM class talked about RRSPs, compound interest, budgeting and even things like proper resumes, applying for work and interview skills. I went to a public school here in Calgary, and if people took away half of what was taught they would have a reasonable idea of how these things worked. The problem to me is that people mistake "I took a class on that" for "I can apply what I learned". Those are two totally different things, and I'm sure that we've all seen that in our professions as well as places like this.