'Should I Go to College?' with Brad Barrett | Personal Finance Guest Speaker

Are guest speakers a challenge for you to find for your personal finance classroom? Time, connections, lack of funding, and location can make it difficult to find knowledgeable, engaging, and fiduciary speakers to bring an exciting perspective to a money topic in your classroom.

I've recorded and am continuing to record guest speakers who join my classroom and others across the country to speak about topics that I might not be an expert on yet or who I know will bring an amazing perspective to students about the money topic we are discussing. These are all experts and influencers in the financial literacy space who we would love for our students to follow and learn from outside of our classrooms.

In this presentation, Brad Barrett, co-founder of ChooseFI and host of the ChooseFI Podcast, is joining us to give a true, unbiased assessment of the value of college as well as other pathways a student might consider. We look into costs, return on investment, alternative ways to acquire employer-valued skills, and building a talent stack.

Some of the questions we answer include:

• Is it still a good investment of my time and money to go to college for a degree?
• How long will it take me to earn back my investment of college costs and lost income opportunity?
• Do I have to have a degree to get a job that is not a trade or low-skilled position?
• What can I do to command a higher salary or income?

In this resource you will get:

• The full classroom presentation from Brad Barrett, hosted by me (FI Educator).
• A student reflection document which can be assigned as a Google Document or printed and completed by hand.
• A printable classroom poster containing the bio of the speaker and ways for students to see more of their work and/or connect.

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