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Before the first paycheck
Budgets, credit, compounding, taxes and insurance, taught by someone who spent six years watching what happens when nobody explains them.
New this term. Reviews from students and parents appear here once families have taken it.
Practical, unromantic, and specific. Students build an actual budget, read an actual credit card agreement, and calculate what a $6,000 balance at 24% costs over four years.
Every meeting of this class stands on its own. Nothing in week six assumes week five, so a student can join in the middle, take the four weeks that fit around a busy month, and stop when they want to. There is no catching up to do, because there is nothing to be behind on.
That is also why there is no grade here and no such thing as an incomplete. The record keeps what actually happened: the meetings attended live and the recordings watched. A student who came to three meetings has a record of three meetings, not a failure.
Week 1
Tracking, fixed versus variable, and the first budget.
Week 2
Scores, interest, and reading the agreement out loud.
Week 3
Time, rate, and the arithmetic of starting early.
Week 4
Withholding, brackets, and filling out a 1040 together.
Week 5
What insurance is actually for.
Week 6
Offers, benefits, retirement accounts, and negotiating.
Workbook & spreadsheet templates
Odysseus Lyceum
Supplied at no cost.
None. Any student in the age range can enroll.
Practical rather than ideological. Ownership and thrift are treated as habits of a free person.
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.
These describe how this instructor has been trained, reviewed with educators and accessibility specialists. They are not a diagnosis and not a marketing claim.
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.
Economics
Eight weeks, both sides, no slogans
Smith, Mises, Hayek and Friedman put directly against Marx, Polanyi, and the modern critics, with students required to state each case in its strongest form.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$48 in total
$19.20 for add’l siblings
Great Books
Selections, read closely
A student studying Smith reads Smith. Books I and IV in substantial selection, plus the passages from Moral Sentiments people forget exist.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
Personal Finance
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.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$14/wk
$70 in total
$28 for add’l siblings
