where studts p >> reporter: they are only teenager but school students, like these seniors a easas greenwich high school in rhode island often have to make tough financial decisions. >> i don't think a credit card would be in my near future. >> i do lay out how muchoney i need during the week to pay for gas or if i want to go out with my friends. >> the price of college today is insanely high. >> reporter: how to manage your i money is a l lson many u.s. until 2014, rhode island had no basic standards for teaching financial education, an issue that was a big concern the private sector before becoming a business teacher. >> we were graduating a whole generation of students that were going to be compelleded to make substantive decisions before they left high school and were ill equipped too so. >> reporter: some of her students took action, successfulul petitioning the state board of education to adopt financial literacy standards. >> it's made me more prepareed paired. >> when you learn from parents it is like the same as put money in your piggy bank. when you learn in a classroom it is a bro