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Teacher charges third graders ‘rent’ to teach them lessons in finance

Source: TikTok

A North Carolina third-grade teacher has been teaching her students finance by having them pay rent.

Teacher Shelby Lattimore has gone viral on social media for teaching her third graders financial literacy. And with over 25 million likes and 793,000 followers on TikTok, fans have loved tuning into her classroom antics. In her classroom, her students follow a system that requires them to pay rent for their classroom essentials, everything from pencils

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