Students Learn to Budget Money

Some students are getting a taste of how much money it takes to live and it isn’t as easy as they thought.

Grover Cleveland Eighth Graders are learning about a program called Real Money Real World.

"For this lesson there were four lessons they learned all about how much money you make with this amount of education with this particular career so they chose their career based on the education they planned to get," Lisa Bradley Extension Educator at OSU Extention said.

In the simulation activity the kids are learning all about monthly expenses and how much it cost to pay bills every month.
Then all the kids learn life lessons like cost for food, insurance and maybe an unemployed spouse.
One student says he’s learning how hard it is when money is tight.

"If I would have bought a car it would have cost way too much money," Randall Melvin a Grover Cleveland 8th Grader said.

Aaron Brocklehurst another eighth grader choose to be a Pharmacist and says he has a little extra money.

"Bradley says the really important lesson here for the kids is the connection between education and income.