Even grownups often struggle with making ends meet. But a special program for area high schoolers is helping young people hone the financial skills they’ll need in the grownup world.<\/p>\n
These Leon High School seniors sound excited and they are (sound of students talking loudly.)<\/p>\n
They’re learning how to make it to the end of the month and still have money left over. The event was a Financial Fitness Fair made possible by the First Commerce Credit Union Foundation. Among the students was Kamryn Ferrell.<\/p>\n
“I felt like being able to see visually see where your money’s going and how you can budget what’s important and not important. I feel it really gave me a full picture of what my life will be like. So it was really important and I was glad we got to do it.”<\/p>\n
Her classmate Mary Grace Parker was also enjoying the crash course in financial fitness.<\/p>\n
“I learned that I should have a lot more respect for my parents! I was very shocked by how difficult it is to keep a budget, even when we planned ahead. So I learned that finances will creep up on you and if you’re not setting aside savings, you’ll be in the negatives and not set up for success.”<\/p>\n
Various credit union people sat in with the kids during the session, including First Commerce CEO Cecilia Homison who had lots of good advice.<\/p>\n
“As I keep telling them, you protect your credit, you pay yourself. You let your credit get away from you, you’re paying somebody else.”<\/p>\n
The credit union regularly hosts financial fitness fairs for the region’s high school seniors. It also has a partnership with the area’s Boys and Girls clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even grownups often struggle with making ends meet. But a special program for area high schoolers is helping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-221426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}