Warsaw Schools To Add Required Personal Finance Course At WCHS
May 12, 2021 at 12:54 a.m.
Warsaw Schools To Add Required Personal Finance Course At WCHS
By Jackie [email protected]
During Tuesday’s meeting, Dr. David Robertson, assistant superintendent of elementary schools, said students can’t always pursue their dreams two or three years out of high school because they are strapped down with debt.
This year was a pilot year for a personal finance course, Robertson said. The course will take a look at things like housing costs, personal budgets, debt, food costs and credit score.
The class will look at the skills students need in the real world to help them achieve their dreams, Robertson said.
There will not be any prerequisites and the recommended grade level for the course is 11th and 12th grades.
Robertson said 100% of the students who already have taken the course would recommend other students take the course.
Robertson said the class would replace an elective opportunity high school students would be able to have.
He said there have been questions that have come from families, asking if every single student has to take this requirement.
“We always want to work with our families if there’s a unique circumstance where a student took a similar program before,” Robertson said, but the default is that students are required to have the class.
Superintendent Dr. David Hoffert said he knows Warsaw Community Schools is going to be getting a lot of calls about this in the 2021-22 school year. He said that they hear all the time that students are not leaving schools financially ready, not knowing what the next steps are. The course is something WCS needs to make sure they have in the curriculum.
Hoffert said the course is something that would fit in with the school corporation’s strategic planning.
Director of Maintenance Jim LeMasters also updated the Board on some of the projects that will be done over the summer.
At Warsaw Community High School, the math classrooms and bathrooms will be upgraded. The Tiger Den floor will be worked on. The tennis court will be started.
At Lakeview Middle School, there are going to be 18 classrooms painted and have carpets replaced and technology updated.
At Jefferson Elementary School, the gym floor will be replaced.
In other business, the Board learned the federal government has extended the free lunch program through the end of the 2021-22 school year.
Chief Financial Officer April Fitterling said students in summer school will be getting breakfast and lunch. Starting in the fall, eligible students will be getting free lunches.
During Tuesday’s meeting, Dr. David Robertson, assistant superintendent of elementary schools, said students can’t always pursue their dreams two or three years out of high school because they are strapped down with debt.
This year was a pilot year for a personal finance course, Robertson said. The course will take a look at things like housing costs, personal budgets, debt, food costs and credit score.
The class will look at the skills students need in the real world to help them achieve their dreams, Robertson said.
There will not be any prerequisites and the recommended grade level for the course is 11th and 12th grades.
Robertson said 100% of the students who already have taken the course would recommend other students take the course.
Robertson said the class would replace an elective opportunity high school students would be able to have.
He said there have been questions that have come from families, asking if every single student has to take this requirement.
“We always want to work with our families if there’s a unique circumstance where a student took a similar program before,” Robertson said, but the default is that students are required to have the class.
Superintendent Dr. David Hoffert said he knows Warsaw Community Schools is going to be getting a lot of calls about this in the 2021-22 school year. He said that they hear all the time that students are not leaving schools financially ready, not knowing what the next steps are. The course is something WCS needs to make sure they have in the curriculum.
Hoffert said the course is something that would fit in with the school corporation’s strategic planning.
Director of Maintenance Jim LeMasters also updated the Board on some of the projects that will be done over the summer.
At Warsaw Community High School, the math classrooms and bathrooms will be upgraded. The Tiger Den floor will be worked on. The tennis court will be started.
At Lakeview Middle School, there are going to be 18 classrooms painted and have carpets replaced and technology updated.
At Jefferson Elementary School, the gym floor will be replaced.
In other business, the Board learned the federal government has extended the free lunch program through the end of the 2021-22 school year.
Chief Financial Officer April Fitterling said students in summer school will be getting breakfast and lunch. Starting in the fall, eligible students will be getting free lunches.
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