By Chloe Nash, Managing Editor
November 18, 2023
ROCKLAND- On Thursday, December 7, all RHS sophomores will attend the Credit for Life fair to learn management skills they will use throughout their life.
During the fair, sophomores are to imagine being a 25-year-old adult and will choose their professions and be assigned a monthly take-home salary.
Students will then go around to booths and make purchases while learning about credit, savings, and real-life budgeting skills.
Some of the booths that students will visit include clothing, housing, safety, and security like lessons on speeding and DUI’s, and life skills.
As a sophomore, parents still are paying for most things that their children wouldn’t even know about, but the fair helps students to understand where to start and figure out the life they hope to have.
Ms. Casey Morrison, a guidance counselor, said, “the fair kind of puts you in that reality check…so it has that good perspective when you leave there being a little more appreciative of what you’re given.”
Ms. Morrison believe that most sophomores don’t already know about things like budgeting and their credit, but hopes at the end they understand how much life really costs to be an adult.
As students start thinking about their future and colleges, the fair is to help show that connection between their career and how much they can make from that path.
Ms. Morrison has learned the best ways to engage students to have them make the most out of the event and expanding the career exploration side of it.
Her note to sophomores is, “take in the event and have fun with it. [The fair] is meant to be fun but its also meant to have you open your eyes to what you want for your life passed high school.”
Sophomore Cailey Kelleher, is looking forward to learning how to manage her money so she can know how to spend it on things necessary and not on just wants.
“I believe this will benefit me in the future so I can manage a household with doing tasks such as bills, paying taxes, and even helping with simple things like tying a tie”, Kelleher said.
Credit management is something that Kelleher finds the most beneficial because as her credit score is good, companies will trust her management more.