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Sophmore year of high school. They taught how to balance a check book and a basic tax form. Also taught us about interest on credit cards. It was only a 6 week class though. They traditionally taught it to seniors, but it got moved to sophomores when the senior level curriculum changed.

We did not have a mandatory economics class. You could take it if you wanted though.

However, all juniors had to take current events and the Constitution. First semester, you got the Constitution -- you learned about it in Freshmen year, but they focused on it your Junior year. Current Events was taught from Newsweek (back when it was a legit news magazine). The everybody in class got one and the teacher taught from the articles. You got lots of economics from it -- same teacher also did the Financial Literacy course I mentioned before.

I had the class 2001-2002. Hype year. 9/11, Enron, Olympics. Current Events was fascinating that year.

The guy who taught this class always complained about the real estate market and how it was bubble used to save us from the .com collapse. Hilarious he was right (although others argued his points too.)

Rural high school in WV with 410 kids. Amazing they don't each stuff like this everywhere if my school could do it.

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