HURON — Students and staff at Huron Middle School gave three presentations during the Huron School Board meeting Monday night.
Leah Branaugh is teaching a new personal finance class in the middle school, that focuses on deciding how students will budget and use their money.
“We talked about comparison shopping, calculating discounts and writing checks,” Branaugh said. “Some have asked if they will ever need to write checks; maybe by the time they’re ready to do that, they might not need to anymore.”
They just finished a chapter on budgeting, and the last unit will cover credit and credit scores.
Bonnie Bartholow, facilitator of Project Lead the Way, said this is the first year the course is being offered at the middle school level. It has been taught in the elementary grades for…
