Zions offers financial planning program for GCHS students
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    Starting in spring 2008, Grand County High School will implement Dave Ramsey's "Financial Peace for the Next Generation" to help students understand basic financial lessons. Zion's Bank is sponsoring "Financial Peace for the Next Generation" in 102 high schools in the state of Utah.

    Currently, more than 60 percent of Utah's high schools are now implementing the curriculum to assist educators in teaching basic financial concepts to high school students.

    "To graduate from high school you have to know what an amoeba is but not how to balance your checkbook," said Ramsey, creator of the program. "After years of listening to parents tell me their financial woes on the radio it made sense to develop a program that would teach teenagers how to avoid their parent's mistakes."

    A recent study showed that three out of five students with credit cards max them out during their freshman year of college and nearly three-quarters of students use their student loans to pay for their credit cards.

     Ramsey created the program to help teach students the financial lessons their parents have learned the hard way. The DVD series covers the basics of insurance, investing, saving, retirement planning and college planning, along with the difficulties associated with credit and debt. More than 2,000 high schools in 50 states and three countries are now using the program to teach students how to begin building wealth at an early age and how to avoid the pitfalls that lead to debt and even bankruptcy.

    For more information about Financial Peace for the Next Generation, visit www.daveramsey.com or call 800-781-8914.
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