These high school students are helping 5th graders learn about personal finance [Video]

April is Financial Literacy Month, and starting with 9th graders in 2024, a half-credit personal finance course is required for high school graduation in Michigan.

According to the Intuit Financial Education Survey released this month, 85% of U.S. high school students say they are interested in learning more about financial topics in high school.

However, some teenagers in Ann Arbor are actually volunteering to teach kids much younger than high school age.

They dropped by an elementary school this week to talk money with some fifth graders.

The Investment Club from Huron High School are part of the first-ever “Financial Literacy Month National Teen Teach-In.”

“So, we are going to give you a presentation about money and its value,” Caleb Patterson, a junior at Huron High School said to the fifth grade class at Thurston Elementary School in Ann Arbor.

The teens talked about everything from saving to budgeting scenarios. …