Central Kitsap High School’s newest class of 2022 economics has just started. Marking itself as the only economics class here at CKHS for the past decade, run by both Mr. Randall and Mr. Sullivan.

The economics class is “my favorite class,” said Vasalisa Joslyn. But why should people learn about economics? What is the importance of such and as so many students say in their classes. “When will we use this in the real world?” 

”There is not a lot of background in most classes talking about money, and things around the economy in general…Mr. Randall and I felt as though students don’t get much opportunity to get to learn more about that topic,” said Mr. Sullivan. “I’m not like hating other classes or anything like that. But economics is a class that regardless of whether you want to take it or not, you will be impacted in your life by economics, right? We live in a capitalist system with money and all sorts of things associated with it.”

Even if you don’t want to learn about economics now, “You are gonna have to make economics choices for your whole life, basically until you die, and even then, somebody’s gotta pay the funeral bill,” said Randall. 

“I hope for students to be able to walk away with real life, applicable skills that they can use in their day to day lives moving forward,” Mr. Sullivan said. “Students don’t get much opportunity to learn more about the topics.” 

“Economics teaches you important things about adulthood and finances that most adults don’t know,” another student added. Economics as a class is very unique in that way, giving students the chance to learn about something so abundant in their future lives as adults.

As for the difficulty of the class “we are designing the class to be engaging, fun and beneficial to them without having to be the most difficult class they have ever taken,” says Mr. Sullivan. Both Mr. Randall and Mr. Sullivan are making the curriculum of the class, and have been talking about the class since “around this time last year,” says Mr. Randall. 

Even though the class is only currently available to juniors and seniors, it does not mean freshmen and sophomores should undermine the importance of such. This is an unique opportunity to learn about something some schools in the district don’t cover, and something that has not been covered at Central Kitsap High School for the past few years. 

Even though the class is only currently available to Juniors and Seniors, it does not mean Freshmen and Sophomores should undermine the importance of the class. Even though the class is new, the teachers are overly qualified to teach such, “I had previously taught economics,” Mr. Randall said. 

The students and classes future’s look bright. Both Mr. Randall and Mr. Sullivan hope to “branch off,” and continue to take the teaching of economics to levels never seen before at Central Kitsap High School.