Eight Reasons High School Makes You Poor

Most high school students would jump at the chance to take a course called "How to Retire Early as a Millionaire."

Forty states include personal finance to some extent in their educational standards or guidelines, according to the National Council on Economic Education. On the surface, this makes it seem that educators in most states realize that high school grads should have a basic understanding of personal finance.

If you dig a little deeper into the numbers, you'll find this is not the case.

The actual implementation of personal finance into high school education is dismal. Only nine states require a course with personal finance content to be offered and only seven states require students to take a personal finance course in high school to graduate (Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, South Dakota and Utah). ...