Survival after high school

Series: Personal Finances and Effective Consumership Series

Duration: 0:18:23

Genre: Educational | Instructional

Year Published: 1981

Creator: Centron Films: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Demonstrates common problems associated with such things as dealing with landlords, paying bills, and balancing a checkbook. Shows students who are living on their own for the first time how to handle these everyday problems., Focuses on Don, a high school student who spends the summer in his older brother's apartment and learns to cope with all that goes wrong, to indicate the problems of moving away from home. Shows Don being initiated into the rituals of sharing chores, cleaning house, planning meals, grocery, shopping within a tight budget, cooking, and dealing with malfunctioning appliances. Discusses handling money, landlord-tenant relations, and the need to make accomodations when living with others. Concludes that gaining personal freedom entails accepting a great deal of personal responsibility.

Complete Record: , Focuses on Don, a high school student who spends the summer in his older brother's apartment and learns to cope with all that goes wrong, to indicate the problems of moving away from home. Shows Don being initiated into the rituals of sharing chores, cleaning house, planning meals, grocery, shopping within a tight budget, cooking, and dealing with malfunctioning appliances. Discusses handling money, landlord-tenant relations, and the need to make accomodations when living with others. Concludes that gaining personal freedom entails accepting a great deal of personal responsibility.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.