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What if your kid's math class was the stock market?
Robert Grego pulled his 15-year-old son out of public school three days before 9th grade. He had no plan. So he asked his son what he actually liked, and built the year around it: Latin because he loves the Roman Empire, American and military history because he's obsessed with World War I, and no Shakespeare.
This year, his son's math is a YouTube channel the two of them run together called The Hostile Takeover. They break down stocks, read charts and solve for X with real dollar signs in front of it. His son makes the thumbnails, does the research, and they just got monetized.
Robert is a lawyer, hotel owner and dad of three. In this conversation we get into:
- Why schools teach Shakespeare (his answer: ”Because they do”)
- How much math a kid actually needs to make a living
- Why school teaches kids to memorize instead of think, and what that means with AI in their pocket
- The email he sent his school district about AI, and the reply he got
- How a professor making $300 during office hours got him into the stock market
- Whether 8 is too young to start learning about investing
- Paying your kids through your business and putting it in a Roth IRA (which, it turns out, I already did)
If you've ever worried that skipping the ”normal” curriculum will leave your kid behind, listen to this one. Robert's son is learning digital marketing, business and algebra at the same time, and none of it came from a textbook.
Links:
- The Hostile Takeover on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheHostileTakeoverTV
- Market From Scratch playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNqyGrAdjjQE
- Robert's hotels on Lake George- the Sundowner, the Lake Haven, the Montreal and the Lake George Inn
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