Sharing class with the bulls and bears

WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY, Ohio (WDTN) - They're students sharing a classroom with the bulls and the bears, but if there was ever a lesson to take stock in, it's this one.

"The kids get an opportunity at Christmas to say I'm not just getting an X-Box, I want stock in Apple today," says Kyle Muntzinger, a social studies teacher at Belmont High School.

An "Apple" for the teacher took on an entirely different meaning Friday for some Belmont students.

The soon-to-be teenage traders got schooled on the stock market courtesy of the Center for Economic Education and Financial Literacy at Wright State's Raj Soin College of Business 

"I always tell the student to buy low and sell high," joked Wright State University Finance Professor Fall Ainina.

But all kidding aside, the lesson is meant to give students something they can bank on when it comes to finances.

In the next few years, Ohio high schools will have a financial education requirement.

But the learning goes far beyond the classroom.

"It's about creating wealth, it's about retirement, it's about having a better life by investing in the stock market," Ainina says.

Soon the students will have a chance to show what they can do in the market.

As part of a statewide challenge, they'll have a hypothetical hundred thousand dollars of their own to invest with to see who can get the best returns.

Already they're sounding more like hedge fund managers than high schoolers.   

"I'm going to look into what young people think," says Belmont senior Osman Shamuratov. "Maybe invest in something that interests me like my favorite brands."