Some financial lessons are learned the hard way. A class at Oconto High School is meant to help students learn about personal finance in class, instead.
- A personal finance class will be a statewide graduation requirement in Wisconsin, beginning with the class of 2028
- The course is already a graduation requirement at Oconto High School.
- Watch the video to see some of what the course’s teacher hopes her students learn in class.
Before it becomes a requirement statewide, a personal finance class is a graduation requirement at Oconto High School.
Monica Veley’s son recently took the class.
“…[B]eing an adult, you have to know these things anyway, so I think it’s great that they’re starting them at a younger age,” Veley said.
Beginning with the class of 2028, a personal finance class will be a graduation requirement statewide.
At Oconto High School, the class has been a graduation requirement since 2019, said Alana Eder, who teaches the class.
“A lot of times, these topics, we learn the hard way,” Eder said.