If you're telling your high school students to invest in crypto, you shouldn't be teaching.

If my personal finance teacher started suggesting direct sales to us in high school, they would have been reported. There is a huge difference between teaching minors to budget their money or talking about global trade trends and telling them how to invest in a 'business' or unregulated market.

Getting into crypto last year and having a bachelor's in education doesn't make you an expert and you certainly shouldn't be giving any kind of opinion to minors on investing what little money they have or will have in the immediate future.

I've been teaching since 2017 and held some crypto since 2018. I've seen students gain and lose interest faster than this subbredit and thanks to most projects ending in rug pulls and pump and dumps now most of my students see all of crypto as a scam, and I can't blame them. It is what it is and if you deny the amount of scam and fraud in crypto, you're delusional.

And you wanna know how many times I've brought up crypto investing with my students? Zero times, because that isn't my position to talk to them about it, and I'm sure as hell not gonna be the reason they lost all their money making inexperienced or just bad decisions.