Teenager Isaac Hertenstein is on a mission to teach elementary- and middle-school children about the value of money.
The lack of financial literacy is a problem for America’s adults, and for the nation’s youth it could be even worse.
Thinking big and starting small, the Greencastle, Ind. sophomore created financial literacy lessons he teaches to elementary- and middle-school students in his district. “This knowledge is extremely important and will affect students when they grow up,” Hertenstein added. — Isaac Hertenstein, 16, created financial-literacy lessons for elementary- and high-school students The next step is finding fellow volunteers who can bring their big-kid credibility to the classroom and engage students. The material’s ready to go at the website he pulled together for the organization he founded, Students Teaching Finance.
Hertenstein has chores, homework and extracurriculars. That includes playing trumpet in jazz band and concert band, cross country, DECA , a club for high schoolers interested in business, and “ethics bowl” where students debate the right’s and wrong’s within real-life scenarios. That, he said, has helped him forment and apply the idea of “everyone having dignity with finances.”
Roughly half of the students in the district were eligible for free or reduced school meals in the 2020-2021 school year, Indiana education statistics show. In a way, Hertenstein is replicating the financial lessons his parents gave him. “They catalyzed my interest,” Hertenstein said, and then he kept at it himself.His mother, a first-grade teacher, and his father, a DePauw University psychology professor, started talking to Hertenstein about money topics early in elementary school.
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