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Originally Posted by polak
I remember CALM. All you did is make resumes, cover letters and a portfolio.
Yes. A high school kid needs to learn how to make a ####ing portfolio of all of his great career accomplishments. I've never heard of anyone bringing in a portfolio into an interview.
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My guess is it's a great course, but wrong stage of a kid's life. It's just not very applicable at that age. They take their allowance and spend it and that's everything they know regarding financial literacy. High school isn't quite the right timing to teach this stuff. Maybe in university, but it seems silly to have pay to take such a course in university.
Budgets and financial literacy was taught as well, though the latter sort of glazed over. I remember the guest speaker saying it was hard to teach high schoolers about managing money they didn't have. Most kids take their allowance and spend the whole thing.
CALM also had sessions regarding drug abuse, sexual health and stress management which ranged wildly from stress from studying, depression and suicide.
I'm not sure why most individuals don't take very much out of it. Maybe it had too much content in it. Maybe it was so broad, it never had much depth. Maybe it was a bit weird and uncomfortable. Or possibly the way it was executed (a circle of chairs in an isolated room/library like we were at those AA meetings in the movies) just made you feel like it wasn't a serious thing to begin with.