While financial skills are a centrepiece, students will also learn entrepreneurship and digital literacy in addition to career and life planning. “This is a good first step,” says Prakash Amarasooriya, who led the Toronto Youth Cabinet initiative and petition pushing for financial literacy in high school. Financial literacy should be part of an equitable education system, he says, because not all families have the wherewithal to teach it adequately to their children. Toronto financial literacy expert Tricia Barry welcomed the move, saying it’s long overdue. But she argues that mandated financial literacy lessons need to be introduced much earlier, by Grade 6, including incorporating the concepts into math class.

Source: thestar March 23, 2017 09:56 UTC