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Twice a week · Five weeks · Ages 15–18
Budget, credit, compounding, taxes and insurance in five weeks, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Built to be finished before a first job starts.
New this term. Reviews from students and parents appear here once families have taken it.
A student about to take a first job needs this material now, not spread across a semester. Meeting twice a week finishes it in five weeks, which is short enough to run in the weeks before a summer job or a senior year.
It builds in order: you cannot talk usefully about credit before compounding, or about taxes before a paycheck. So this one runs start to finish and is graded, unlike most of our catalog.
Students leave with an actual budget for their own actual money, a filled-out sample tax form, and the arithmetic on a car loan they can do in their head.
This one meets twice a week, always at the same hour. That is a real claim on your week, and it is deliberate: this material is learned faster in short frequent contact than in one long meeting, and the gap between meetings is short enough that nothing has to be re-established at the start of each one.
This course accumulates. The class reads the same pages at the same pace and each meeting picks up the argument where the last one left it, so joining halfway means joining an argument already in progress.
Because there is a whole body of work at the end of it, this one is graded (pass/fail) and can be carried to a transcript. Enroll before the second meeting.
Week 1
Two meetings: gross, net, withholding, and where the rest of it went.
Week 2
Two meetings: a real budget built from the student’s own figures.
Week 3
Two meetings: interest working for you and against you, computed both ways.
Week 4
Two meetings: cards, scores, car loans, and the cost of the minimum payment.
Week 5
Two meetings: a sample return completed, and what risk is worth paying to avoid.
Worksheet set
Odysseus Lyceum
Budget templates, a sample pay stub, and a practice tax return. Supplied at no cost.
Taught from the conviction that a young adult who understands compounding and stays out of consumer debt starts free. Markets and credit are presented with both their uses and their traps.
Read our academic philosophyMeetings are recorded and released to enrolled families for fourteen days. Recordings capture the instructor and shared materials; student video is not published.
Full refund up to seven days before the first meeting; inside seven days, everything paid is credited to your Lyceum balance. No refunds or credits once the class has begun. Cancel any section from your parent account.
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Students and parents review separately, on different questions, and the two aggregates are never blended. Every review is verified and moderated.
No parent reviews for this class yet.
Reviews from students are published as “Student, age 13”, never with a full name. Photo and short video reviews are supported and moderated before they appear.
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