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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New Financial Literacy Program for All

I'm MCPS, all Grade 7 students will spend three weeks in their social studies class learning important principles of financial literacy like saving, investing and budgeting. Their learning culminates in a field trip to Finance Park Montgomery to put into practice what they learned through a real-life simulation in which they must shop for what they need to live and work but stay within their budget.

Finance Park is located at the new Edison High School of Technology where students will also learn about career programs of study available in high schools around the county.

Parent and Community Volunteers are an essential component of the Finance Park experience. Each school must recruit up to 20 volunteers for each day they attend Finance Park.

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Questions:
[b]If they need up to 40 volunteers for each school (if a school goes over 2 days), why doesn't MCPS hire staff to run Finance Park? That is 40 (# of MS) times 40 volunteers (or at least 20 volunteers if volunteers can assist both days) = 800 to 1600 volunteers (is that math right, MCPS;)? [/b]

Did your kid go? Did they learn anything? Did you volunteer and do you recommend to other parents? What duties did you have as a volunteer at the venue other than crowd control and corralling students? [/quote]

If a program needs staff, it should be staffed. MCPS has the money.[/quote]
MCPS is trying to fund enough classroom teachers and get class sizes down.[/quote]

Are they? Large class sizes keep parents demanding more funding and get parents to agree to tax increases. 
MCPS just wasted $100M without a thought. [/quote]

Mcps still has 150 plus  job openings. I think they need to fill those before they start creating jobs for a field trip[/quote]

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