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"Chief financial officers look at the whole picture and they plan and they preplan and they look at numbers and not feelings," Jackson said. "They apply rules to the game so that they, as the chief financial officer of their family, can lead their family into generations of financial stability."
Beyond measurable credit scores and loan defaults, the human impact of these standalone classes often hits home at graduation.
Three months after the tearful student opened a Roth IRA in Jackson's classroom, the teacher was approached again by someone who was crying at the school's commencement ceremony. This time, however, they were happy tears. It was the student's mother, thanking him for turning around her entire household's financial life.
"I'm just a beggar that found food, and I'm telling everybody where it is," Jackson said. "I want to live through my students as if I were 18 again - and so when they become millionaires, I feel like I'm a millionaire."
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