January 18th, 2007
Putting a down payment on Heaven and to Hell with everyone else
It’s school project time for a friend. The kids (about 12 I think) are all to be given £1 and allowed one month to see how much they can make from that initial sum.
Is it just me that thinks that’s wrong?
It doesn’t even come close to “teaching them the value of money”, preferring instead to teach them Gordon Gekko’s mid-80’s warcry of “Greed is Good”.
Never mind that even going back after a month with £1.01 they’d be outperforming the UK economy I don’t like the idea of teaching them to be little capitalists instead of letting them enjoy being kids.
Well if that’s what the teachers want then in true capitalist style the kids should award themselves a fund managers bonus of 99p - after all you have to attract top talent so they deserve fat cat rewards, blow the bonus on the kiddie equivalent of booze, fast cars and fast women, give the penny change back to the teachers, tell ‘em that the value of investments can go down as well as up, invoice the teachers 10p commission charge for handling their money, cough up ‘cos I know where you live, and if they have any complaints they can fuck off they should get a better financial advisor, oh and by the way grandad I’ll be the one managing your pension fund when you’re older…
Who would be teaching who then?
Please add your ideas for spending the pound that will cause maximum embarrasment to the teacher when presented in front of class.
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January 19th, 2007 at 8:49 am
so its not just me then ;-)