How Financial Literacy is Important to our Youth

I believe that we need to constantly be looking for ways to imbed cross curricular concepts in all courses. I thought this way when I was a science teacher and still do while I teach Sumer Dr. Education.  I Find incorporating financial literacy to be easy in Dr. Education.  The cost of purchasing, maintaining, insuring, and operating a car is one of the larger expenditures a person is going to incur during their lifetime. It is also a motivator for many students while they are in high school.  It is vital that students understand the value of making, budgeting, and saving money. It seems that our society has failed our youth in understanding how to use money rather than they being controlled by money.