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Personal Growth Lui Ho Ming, Alvis 6E (2016-2017)

operates and to interpret financial news and its implication is conducive to
students’ critical thinking skills. In today’s society, the stock market is in
fact inextricably affiliated with our daily lives. For instance, the fluctuations
of the stock market can lead to various social phenomena such as wealth
disparity. However, most of the students nowadays are unfamiliar with the
knowledge in the field of finance due to insufficient exposure. Furthermore,
being equipped with fundamental financial knowledge, students are able to
diversify their income channels by investment when they start to work. It is
patently obvious that financial education is beneficial to the development
of students and therefore as a parent, I am in favour of the imposition of
financial education in the junior secondary curriculum.

I hold firm to my belief that with the implementation of compulsory
financial education, not only can students exert greater self-control over the
use of money, but they can also learn more about the financial market. It is
hoped that the younger generation can truly understand the value of money
and the problems of overspending among teenagers can be ameliorated.

Yours faithfully,
Chris Wong

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