GoodCents: Class Economy

GoodCents turns a classroom into a working economy. Students earn a paycheck for showing up, pay income tax and seat rent, shop at a store their teacher stocks, save at interest, borrow, build a credit score, and invest at real market prices. Every lesson arrives as something that happened to them, on their own money. Financial literacy is usually taught as vocabulary. This teaches it as consequences — small, safe, weekly, and personal. WHAT STUDENTS DO • Get paid. Attendance becomes salary every payday, and the paystub shows every line on the way to the wallet: gross, tax, rent, net. • Spend. A store the teacher stocks — snacks, privileges, homework passes. Buying issues a QR ticket that staff scan to hand the item over. • Save. A savings account that compounds every payday, including the fractions banking up toward the next whole coin. • Borrow. A school bank with a rate set by the…