California personal – Starting with the graduating class of 2031, California will require students to take a personal finance course to graduate high school. Fresno Unified, which has already built and expanded these classes, is set to influence the statewide rollout after the Cali
On a recent Friday morning at a Fresno Unified high school, students traced the rise and fall of major companies in the stock market—moving from Walmart’s longevity to Apple’s surge past oil companies and Amazon’s emergence as a $1 trillion company.
The exercise wasn’t just a lesson in economics. It was practice for adulthood. A few days earlier, at the Farber Educational Center, students finished a competitive personal finance project using $100,000 in pretend money—investing in the stock market and tracking whether their strategy worked.
Those kinds of lessons are becoming the backbone of a new California graduation requirement. The state will require all high schools to offer a personal finance course starting in 2027-28, and all students must take the class beginning with the graduating class of 2031.
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Finally, about time they teach real stuff.
Wait so they’re making kids take finance class but like… is it gonna be the same as math? I feel like they’ll just play pretend stock trading and call it “adulting.” Also 2031 seems way too far out.
My cousin says AB 2927 is already happening in Fresno so it’s basically politics, not education. And why do they use Walmart/Apple/Amazon charts like that’s everyone’s situation? Pretend money $100,000 is cute but then what, they still don’t fix rent or jobs. I’m not saying finance is bad, it’s just weird timing.
2031 is a lifetime lol. By then they’ll probably change it again. But honestly I like the “personal finance” thing even if the article makes it sound like kids are just learning which billionaires win. Didn’t they already require something like this in Texas or am I mixing states up? Either way, if they’re teaching investing and tracking results, cool, I guess.