Many Teens Lack Financial Literacy

According to the annual JA and Allstate Foundation “Teens and Personal Finance” Survey, the majority of U.S. teens say they do not budget their money and are unsure about how to plan for saving and investing their money. Many teens say that their parents take care of all of their expenses or that budgeting is not necessary with the amount of money they have. To read more on the survey click here.

Junior Achievement offers several volunteer-led or parent-based resources to help students become financially literate. Click here to read more.

Spring Break Reminder

Hey Volunteers! A friendly reminder – our teachers and students will be out on spring break this week. You will be able to continue with your lessons beginning the week of March 22nd. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Junior Achievement would like to wish you a safe and fun spring break!

TCU Student Reunited with Kindergarten Teacher

Texas Christian University business student, Alexandria Bruton, was one of many TCU students to sign up to volunteer for Junior Achievement this semester. JA staff assigned these volunteers to a few elementary schools throughout Fort Worth ISD. Alexandria was assigned at random to Como Elementary in a kindergarten classroom. It was such a surprise to find out that she would be volunteering in the classroom of Ms. Beverly Patin, who taught her kindergarten when she attended Como Elementary about 15 years ago!

Alexandria will be teaching the JA program "Ourselves" which explains personal economics through a collection of short stories read aloud by the volunteer, followed by a fun, hands-on activity. We are excited to have Alexandria back in her kindergarten classroom impacting the students at Como Elementary.

“How you can affect the student drop out rate: Volunteer for Junior Achievement”

• Every 26 seconds another student drops out of school in America - over 1.3 million students per year.

• Of those who do graduate high school, only 1/3 have the skills they need to succeed in college and in the 21st century workforce.

• Just 12% of US high schools generate half of the nation’s dropouts.

• There will be an estimated $3 trillion cost to our economy based on the more than 12 million students projected to drop out over next decade.

Help us change these statistics by volunteering to teach Junior Achievement in a local classroom today! Please contact Laura Clingman at lclingman@jafortworth.org for more information regarding classroom availability.