Hey there @broncofan99! So you teach 8th grade geography? I really like her idea and concept of the human library. I agree it’s so important for kids to understand why they are learning what they’re learning and how it will help them in real life situations.

I homeschool and lately we have been teaching our 2nd grader why her education is so important. She struggles with math so we allow her to buy things she likes and she gets to count out the money to the cashier. Before the cashier gives her change back we have her to tell us what she should be getting back. We try to teach her how important it is to learn how to count money because she could easily be cheated out of her money and/or not able to catch the mistakes that people make. She also is starting to see that in order to buy things she needs to know how many items depending on the price, she will be able to get with her money.

Thanks for sharing this article, it was a great write up :)

I’ll see ya in the NYC channel!