Sports betting ed?

[Anonymous]

I have been thinking a lot about how much my own children are seeing ads for online gambling and betting. Does your child’s high school offer any information or parent education about sports betting risks? Over the break we heard from one family friend whose school has classes and programming but curious what other schools are doing.

[Anonymous]

It's everywhere in all the schools. If they aren't on the apps they have bookies.

Those who are not gambling are letting others use their email so they get the intro bonus. Deposit $5 get $200

[Anonymous]

HS Bookies?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's everywhere in all the schools. If they aren't on the apps they have bookies.

Those who are not gambling are letting others use their email so they get the intro bonus. Deposit $5 get $200

Yep

[Anonymous]

As a teacher, I'll never pass up a chance to repeat to my HS students that sports betting, any kind of betting, is for idiots who want to get ripped off.

Telling a teenager something is stupid is often more effective than saying it's wrong.

[Anonymous]

My son's high school doesn't provide information about the risks and dangers of sportsbooks. That said I support the idea especially since it is relevant to Washington, D.C. where the minimum age to gamble legally is 18.

While sports betting is mostly a mug's game for the bettor, there's a lot that can be learned from it, analytics, math, and risk all come to mind. My preference is for his school and his parents to teach DS about gambling, as opposed to other interested parties, MGM and FanDual for example.

[Anonymous]

My son's honors Pre-Calc teacher taught them about betting odds when teaching probability which was more impactful than just saying odds are you won't win...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's everywhere in all the schools. If they aren't on the apps they have bookies.

Those who are not gambling are letting others use their email so they get the intro bonus. Deposit $5 get $200

That's terrifying. I am more wondering what each school is doing to address it as we have middle schoolers who will be applying to private schools for high school soon and I am curious how responsive individual schools are to current issues like this.

[Anonymous]

Seema more like a parent topic to educate at home vs schools IMO

[Anonymous]

Gambling was one of the reasons our school instituted a phone ban.