Enough is enough. In my life, two things are happening in parallel about which I am incredibly invested – and unhappy.

Firstly (and for those who have been following along at home), my son is shortly finishing year 10 and, a couple of weeks ago, divulged something that shocked me: he has done just one exercise in his decade of schooling on money and its management. In maths in Year 8, he had to plan a party and make a profit.

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon and her children.

That’s it. No talk of the dangers of debt. Nothing on the magic of compounding. Nada on the realities of taxation, the power of superannuation, the opportunities and threats inherent in the fintech for which he will become a target as soon as he, for the last time, leaves the school gate.

So what’s the second thing that’s now making my blood boil? Any day New Zealand will release the draft curriculum for how money lessons will from January be explicitly embedded for all students from Years 1 to 10.

It will be added as an essential element of Social Sciences with what’s called “corresponding learning outcomes”. In other words, it will be taught and it will be tested.

Now,........

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