Reilly, social studies program coordinator for Fairfax County Public Schools, talks about the partnership among Fairfax County, Junior Achievement and Capital One to create Finance Park, a new program that allows eighth-graders to gain hands-on financial experience. The grand opening of the Finance Park facility in Fairfax is Tuesday. What does the program entail?
It’s a financial literacy program for middle school students. … At the facility the students become adults for a day where they are given an identity, such as married, single, divorced, with an income and family situation in terms of how many children they may have. From that, there are 18 different components, such as housing, home improvement, entertainment, food, clothing, that they then have to develop a budget based upon the income that they have been given.
