Dressing up their propaganda as a course in financial literacy:
This month’s federally commissioned Task Force on Financial Literacy declared that “financial education needs to be provided in the school system.” It’s apparently crucial that we mobilize teachers and schools to the cause of instilling “good habits and responsible attitudes” toward finance among school-aged Canadians.
Then again, we might make just as much headway instructing kids about the ins and outs of budgets and investments if we simply prevented teachers from filling their little heads with anti-consumerist propaganda and assorted business-hating falsehoods in the first place.
Before anyone unveils any new courses in basic financial literacy, we should make it a crusade to rid our schools of the financially illiterate and factually incorrect course material currently masquerading as economics and science in our schools today. Case in point: The Story of Stuff.
Here’s the dissemination of the lies (part one) that The Story of Stuff promotes:
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