{"id":3038,"date":"2012-08-20T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/08\/20\/summers-over-school-begins-again\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:19","slug":"summers-over-school-begins-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3038","title":{"rendered":"Summer&#8217;s Over; School Begins Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight my summer comes to a close. <\/p>\n<p>Classes begin for the fall semester today&nbsp;and I begin another school year teaching financial planning and retirement planning. My syllabus is done and printed. I have my first lecture done and have their homework assignment prepared. I don&#8217;t have new school clothes but I&#8217;m a bit old for that anyway!<\/p>\n<p>After teaching the same class for six years, things begin to get a little stale and you find yourself going through the motions at times. That is why I&#8217;m glad that they&#8217;ve revamped my intro course to open it up&nbsp;to non-Finance majors. The class title has gone from &#8220;Introduction to Financial Planning, Risk Managment, and Insurance&#8221; to &#8220;Managing (Your) Money for Financial Success.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Instead of just prepping Finance majors to be advisors and planners, I&#8217;ll be trying to give undergraduates some life skills. It is not that the former isn&#8217;t important &#8211; it is &#8211; but getting college students started on the right track financially is more important. I&#8217;ll be lecturing on things like credit card debt and FICO scores as well as investments and insurance. <\/p>\n<p>The only downside is that I&#8217;ll be stuck in a officially-mandated by state law gun-free zone. Before it is suggested that I ignore this, under NC General Statutes \u00a7 14\u2011269.2.&nbsp;it is a felony for me to knowingly possess a firearm on campus. The only defense I have is to be in a state of heightened awareness &#8211; and to know where to find a fire extinguisher.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight my summer comes to a close. Classes begin for the fall semester today&nbsp;and I begin another school year&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[282,3672],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gun-free-zones","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8281,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions\/8281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}