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So this was just an idea given to me from the class on monday. My group was talking about all of our ideas and i was glad that no one had an idea of what they wanted to talk about other than Dylan. So im just going to write what I had told my group. 

 What I told them was that I have been into combat sports for most of my life. I had actually had dreams of going to the big stage (as many others do) but that dream quickly died when I realized that there is an ungodly amount of work that has to be put into it. Other than me wanting to live my life and actually be able to eat pizza, its also a dangerous sport. The dangerous where you can become brain damaged or even die. So ill keep going for a 9-5. That doesn’t mean that I do not love all combat sports, I still practice them, my favorite of them all is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. You just learn alot about yourself when you are getting thrown around by a dude significantly smaller than you, its crazy but it also teaches you how to fight ( not promoting violence btw) and it teaches you to be more confident in yourself ( in the sense of fighting… I still very much get stage fright ). So you could say fighting is one of my hobbies ( again, not promoting random violence, but seeing 2 people battling it out is kinda awesome. You can really see who would survive in the gladiator days).  

So I wanted to write an opinion piece about this, but I had no where to really start and I was just like…  ”       ” yea.  So Dylan had told me an idea. Performance enhancing drugs… should they be allowed in fighting sports? Maybe, people love to see people push the limit.. obviously with notifying the ref that these men are juiced so the ref knows that they can kill each other a little easier. Or should they not be allowed because its.. wrong.. and dangerous, unethical to the fighting community bc maybe not everyone wants to be juiced… Great idea.. 

Another one that came to me was “Should head gear be required in the big stage”.. Some might say yes! It will protect our fighters from things like brain damage and getting killed. Some might say no.. that for wimps and that they want to see 2 people knock each other out cold. 2 different opinions both of them very valid. I am open to new ideas though.

For my opinion piece, my topic of choice the learning of economics, more specifically addressing the need for finance to have a spot in general education and taught alongside subjects like English and mathematics which I believe is just as important to learn as those two are.

To give some context on the matter, my high school had this college now program that offered an extra class a student can take for college credits, and one such class was an economics class. Initially I was quite interested and intrigued to take this class in order to understand financial management, and at the beginning it was such a class where there were discussions of a five-year plan, inflation and other topics regarding personal finances. That was until the covid-pandemic hit which changed the curriculum to economic history, which was nice, but ultimately not something I found as interesting compared to what we were learning pre-covid. Much time later nearing the end of my senior year (during May if my memory serves me right), my government class shifted gears towards an economic unit utilizing an education program called Everfi. This program was actually quite informative with the fundamentals of how to manage your finances, even going as far as explaining what credit is, how to generate interest and other things that involved money. That being said though, the unit was quite short, and we ultimately finished the program within half of the month.

To that end, my whole experience can be summed up to just that, being taught a small chunk of how finance works and then moving on from the subject subsequently leaving me wanting to understand more about finance. So, I was thinking why not bundle finance into general education, that way students aren’t getting short ended with such a topic that could potentially serve them well outside of the classroom just like English and math.

Now I’ve been looking into a few articles so far with nothing solid yet, but I’m quite sure I know what I’m looking for in terms of articles, mainly ones that support my idea showing how students utilized what they learned in finance out in real life situations in part to taking the class.