“We really don’t have too many classes that teach to our lives. I think last year at the beginning of ninth grade, we did like two days of learning about taxes and interest and then we haven’t learned about anything like that since. One of the things that I feel like they can change doing things more that we can connect to and that we’re going through. It’s like in 10th grade we’re 10th graders looking to get a job, looking for their permit and do other things like that.” — Focus Group Report
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