Economics now required in Mississippi Schools

MyFox Gulf Coast | Economics now required in Mississippi Schools: "Dennis Miller is a senior this year at Moss Point High School. He hopes to attend Southern Miss or Georgia Tech after graduation but before then he has to get through economics.

'First day I got here I asked a lot of questions and he was pulling stuff up on the internet, so I'm really getting into it,' said Miller.

Starting with this year's senior class, every student in Mississippi schools will be required to take an economics class in order to graduate. So do students really know about money, saving, and budgeting?

'I had no clue, my momma goes grocery shopping and it's a big deal. I don't even want to be apart of it,' Miller said.

One of Miller's classmates wasn't so frightened by the idea. 'I started about 10th grade, that's when I had my first job and I had to learn to manage my money,' said Jasmine Ashley.

Students entering this class learn everything from balancing a checkbook to the rules of the stock market, but more importantly their teacher said it teaches them how to survive in the real world."