Shouldn't schools start to offer Money Management Subjects already?

That's nice but sadly they only give that to high-schoolers? How about the elementary? Aren't they given the basic education on financial management? Though it is also the responsibility of parents to teach their kids about money, but because most of them are busy with their respective jobs, they won't be able to find enough time to teach their children much less be with them...

In grade school, we learned basic money transactions. We learned how to make change in second or possibly 3rd grade. By 6th grade, we were figuring percentages for sales tax purposes. By 8th grade, we were figuring compound interest. What was missed?

There are still much to learn about financial literacy especially how real money works in the real world. Management of money does not stop only on those things, if you know what I mean. Seriously, schools never teach it's students things like "how to use money to work for you"--it's still a money management skill, right?...It isn't tackled in my area's education system, at least. And so far I've learned all money usage from real hand experience instead of the traditional way of sitting oneself in a classroom.

I agree with you on the first sentence and the last one. I am a bit confused with the middle of those two. Yes, teaching money management or financial literacy is the same as teaching another person his personal responsibility--his responsibility towards his life and his future. I don't know nor do I understand why there are people who don't believe that saying but I do, my mom do and even my brother and sister do. And I also believe that one should never be dependent on the government or some company to take care of you once you retire...or even while the person is still working. Because they really don't give a damn to other people they knew nothing about and someone who is dispensable for them. This is the cold harsh truth. Heaven only knows how many people I know who really suffered in their current situation because they believed otherwise.

That is correct. People needs to learn money even children as young as 7 years old. They need to be able to start young so that they'll have a very good foundation in financial literacy so that in the future, they won't find it hard to manage their own finances as do many of us experience nowadays.

There are facts that says even bankers or tellers that manage our money in banks can't even make themselves rich through the use of their knowledge in money making. That is something that surprised me when I first heard of it. Even accountants have problems in making themselves rich. Are those financial learning they got in school still not enough? Or is it that they haven't gotten the full meaning of what it is they're learning? I wish to learn more about financial management and how to use my money to make money for me instead of me working for money. That's why I asked, because of the way our economy is today too, that shouldn't school start to get serious in teaching students how to manage money? I guess my question is too broad that others couldn't understand the full meaning of it...

That is what I mentioned in my other comment. But there is the problem with parents with not enough time in their hands to be with their children enough to teach them management of money due to their work. So the school is left with such a responsibility. And there is this another case where there are parents who don't know how to manage money. So how can they teach their children to manage money if they themselves don't know how?