Financial Literacy in Content Area

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Financial Literacy in Content Area

April Netley
I am a high school counselor and where I can see financial literacy in my content area is when I start to talk about planning for financing college costs.  Students are under the misconception that because “billions” of dollars go unclaimed in scholarships, they will somehow have little trouble funding their education.  I tell them that finding the funding for their education is not the hard part.  Repaying it is.  They don’t see the problem of taking out loans that will far exceed their ability to pay them back.  I am anxious to see what resources are available to get my message across in the second largest, (possible the largest) monetary investment of their lives.