As in this WSJ story about the Stock Market Game (which I totally played -- and sucked at -- in high school).
Playing the Market, These Kids Are Losing a Lot of Play Money
This School Year, Short Sellers Rule; Avery Maxwell, 11, Dreads Monthly Statement
By JENNIFER LEVITZ
WILMINGTON, Del. -- Michael Ashworth slumped by his computer, weary from another rough day in the stock market. All his favorite picks -- Domino's Pizza Inc., Hershey Co. and Gap Inc. -- were down.
"I'll be honest with you," he confided. "Before all this, I asked my mom to get me stocks for Christmas," but then "I told her not to do it. I asked for a parakeet instead."
Michael, a 13-year-old at Wilmington's Skyline Middle School, is one of 700,000 players in the "Stock Market Game," a scholastic contest in which students from grades four through 12 get a hypothetical $100,000 to invest in stocks, bonds or mutual funds.
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