“Investing” In Your Future

By Bailey Dixon

            As kids transition through high school and get closer and closer to graduation, they are closer and closer to becoming adults.  Along with this comes a heaping pile of stress about financial decisions and their futures.  How am I going to pay for college?  How am I going to buy my first car?  How should I invest my money?  Well, this year students have the opportunity to take a class that may help them through these decisions.

                Mrs. Zuercher, the business teacher in the High School, is offering a new class this semester: Investing.  The idea for this class came up last year during Mrs. Zuercher’s Microsoft Office classes.  The classes were smaller than they had been in the past, so she decided that she could combine those classes into one, and offer a new course each semester.

                The Investing class covers many topics centralized around planning for your future.  They cover investing in the stock market, the different kinds of investments, exactly how to invest, etc.  One project that Mrs. Zuercher has planned later on in the semester is to have the kids pick out different stocks and follow them and pretend to make their own investment decisions.

                “I’m really excited to teach this class, because instead of us just telling kids to save their money and invest, we’re actually going to show them how.  We’ve had a lot of interest in this class already, which is great because it’s going to help them get a much better understanding of the economy and how to be smart with your money than we were taught as kids,” said Mrs. Zuercher.

                “I like this class because I’m learning something that’s going to be really useful to my future, and I like looking at the stock market and actually being able to relate information at school to what’s going on in the real world,” said Jake Peters, a senior in the Investing class.

                With the economy in the condition that it’s in today, Mrs. Zuercher expects that this class will hopefully help to teach students how they can make better decisions when it comes to their financial situation.  This class is sure to be a success, and help kids know how to invest not only in the stocks, but in their future as well.