Ontario high school students will soon need to pass a financial literacy test in order to graduate.
Education Minister Paul Calandra says students need practical, real-world skills, including how to manage money and budgets.
Updated curriculum requirements for financial literacy were set to take effect at the beginning of this school year, but Calandra paused that and a few other curriculum updates in June to give teachers more time for implementation.
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Instead of adding financial literacy to the Grade 10 math curriculum, it will remain in the Grade 10 career studies curriculum and will come with a mandatory test.
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TVO is developing learning modules and test questions, and students must achieve at least 70 per cent to pass.
If students are not successful after the second attempt, the Ministry of Education says they could get additional instruction and support before trying again.
Lol pointless considering they don’t even hold kids back for failing classes .
It’s about 25-years too late and with the sharp increase in costs of living and 40-years of stagnant wages, it’s not clear how this curriculum is going to make a tangible impact. Employers view our graduates as numbers, not individuals, and will simply continue to double down on their wage suppression tactics, calling them “unqualified” and request more TFWs. I have already lived this. Students can budget all they want, but only the overachievers will qualify for a mortgage in this New World Order housing market.
Now how about math skills, English skills. How about history? I see articles here claiming that Canvas tee-pee’s are traditional, and that Cree children do ‘Walk out’s’. However Canvas came with the settlers, children were never taught skills until they matured… the infant mortality rate was just too high. How about Science? So many articles on how SAF reduces CO2, when it actually increases CO2 release.