Economy

In fact, it was couched as the opposite. "Team from X Wall Street firm will be in the gym/auditorium/meeting room at 6pm on Day the Date to give a short workshop and answer questions on Understanding Credit". Not that we knew anything more than anyone else who was paying attention - we just volunteered and the school boards took us up on it. As word spread, we got additional requests from other entities.

With few exceptions, these were inner city schools and we had language translators on the dais, which was extremely beneficial as none of us were bilingual.

Too many of these kids get this kind of "education" from the Rent-a-center and payday loan places and only figure it out after the big screen is taken back and they are in debt up to their eyeballs trying to infinitely catch up to the loan they took out on their 'next paycheck'.

It worked quite well and I defy anyone in power of a given district who would toss out that shit "socialism" meme to come up with a better system for educating kids on these kinds of skills. Truly.