Reality of Money-SECU Simulation for 11/12th graders

State Employee's Credit Union is sponsoring an adult, real-life simulation at Performance Learning Center (behind CVA) on March 21st 9am-11am. CVA 11th and 12th graders are invited to attend the event. If you wish to attend, please RSVP on this post so Mrs. Short can have an accurate count of students. Mrs. Short will be at PLC that day to welcome CVA students.

SECU’s Reality of Money was developed by a team of professionals from across North Carolina. The team set forth to create a program that could be shared in schools statewide with the main takeaways of realizing the importance of a savings plan, budgeting, and maintaining good credit and understanding opportunities available with post-secondary education and training. In the program, students are assigned a “profile,” which includes their job, education level, and income. They then navigate stations that simulate various aspects of regular life, such as health needs and insurance, clothing, transportation, childcare, etc. They are exposed to the limiting effects of bad credit and the positive effects of saving, budgeting, and planning for the future. The profiles assigned to students are designed to reflect average salaries for given professions in North Carolina, while the stations reflect average expenses statewide.