Hermon High School students teach fourth graders about money [Video]

HERMON, Maine — Hermon High School personal finance students hosted a “Teen Teach-in” class on Tuesday at Patricia Duran Elementary School, showing  fourth grade students smart ways to save, spend, and borrow money. 

The teen teach-in is part of the nonprofit Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy‘s nationwide campaign to teach teens and younger children about financial literacy. The coalition supports personal finance educators across the county, and it partners with state affiliates.

“They want to know about money, and they want to know how to get it,” Laura Levine, president and CEO of the organization, said while explaining how interested teens are in learning about financial literacy. “The want to know how to make it, how to grow it, what to do with it.”

Levine said the organization was founded in 1995, a time when she said 18 to …