# Why don’t schools teach basic consumer finance & law?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 11, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-don-t-schools-teach-basic-consumer-finance-law/991425 "2023-10-11T23:57:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-don-t-schools-teach-basic-consumer-finance-law/991425/8 "2023-10-12T01:22:26Z")

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Here are 400 posts from earlier this year on the same general topic. But more focused on the outcome than the teaching:

> [@Basic Financial Literacy - why is it SO uncommon?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basic-financial-literacy-why-is-it-so-uncommon/981841):
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> After hanging around here two decades and some change, I’ve run across a lot of threads that remind me that people (in the general sense) have very little financial literacy. They often get into crippling debt, take sucker deals on things like mortgages, and do other financially questionable and often frankly stupid things. And even among those who are aware of the basic concepts, you still get some funny notions. Like for example, the not at all uncommon idea among those of a certain little-…

But the “who’s teaching what why” aspects do get covered along the way as well.

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