No, Georgia did not pass a bill to teach highschool students about cryptocurrency.
Someone made a thread with this article and a very clickbaity title to entice and get reactions and comments from all of you (obviously for Moon farming). If you read the article you will see that:
- It's from March 12, not recent.
- Any "proposed bill" needs to be approved by both legislature houses (House of Representatives and Senate). It was only approved on the House of Representatives, so it effectivelly wasn't "passed".
- It's already dead on the Senate as you can read here: "Status: Engrossed on March 8 2021 – 50% progression, died in chamber"
- The proposed bill intended to add a 16 point Financial Literacy course to 10th and 11th graders where one of them was cryptocurrency as you can see here.
- This is literally in the second paragraph of the original article: According to the report, the bill aims to amend the current curriculum for 10th and 11th-grade students. The new program would consist of 16 new areas of financial literacy such as cryptocurrency, balancing a checking account, money management, making investments, and completing loan applications, among other traditional subjects.
Easy conclusion: Georgia is not teaching students about Crytocurrency. People will upvote whatever makes them feel good even though a simple reading of the article and a small amount of critical thinking would make them at least question the way the headline was written.
Let's be better 🙂
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