Forty students at Animas High School on Friday finished a week of classes covering aspects of money management that often are learned only through bitter experience.
The students for two hours a day heard speakers and played games that covered earning, taxes, savings, credit, credit cards and credit reports, investments and how to avoid fraud.
Know Your Dough is a nonprofit aimed at giving high-schoolers the basics of personal finance they’ll need to get along in the working world.
“There are no grades given,” said Executive Director Allison Anderson. “Only certificates.”
At Durango High School, where 275 students took the class earlier this year, Know Your Dough is a graduation requirement, Anderson said.
It’s not required for graduation at Animas High, she said.
“We’re talking about offering similar training for junior high and elementary students,” Anderson said. “Instruction would be age-appropriate.”
Classes also could be offered at Fort Lewis College, Anderson said.
daler@durangoherald.com
