How Currency Works And Why It Doesn’t

As many class businesses & organizations thrive this year, the need for money is real. Many people have tried to create money & currency to make the exchanging of goods & services easier.

Businesses have long been a part of school. Small fake shops during recess started in first grade. These sometimes would use fake money, but would usually give things for free.

With the release of Shenzy in third grade, and the shops of Mr. Quinn's class in fourth grade, currency became common. Here are two scenarios where currency was used:

In the case of the woodland Acres, currency was not successful. It currently uses the shink, which nobody uses. One reason is that the government (which doesn’t really exist) doesn’t control the currency that much. There have only been two treasurers over the year, each of them only serving for a month. One citizen can just decide that they have 1,000,000,000 shinks. It has happened before. Another reason that the shink doesn’t work is that it is not that important to the Woodland Acres working. Other main things that make the Woodland Acres interesting are building, government, magic, war, & quests. In the past, the Woodland Acres has used both the dollar and the ice crystal as money. A successful example were the shops in Mr. Quinn's class. It worked for about 3 months until Mr. Quin shut it down when it became a distraction. Thomas started the currency, and called it the Speed Dollar, after his carpet ski & snowboard shop, Speed Doggy. Sudiksha & Mila also created a currency, yellow papers, called Sudiksha Dollars. The Sudiksha Dollar later replaced the Speed Dollar.

The only problem was that Speed Doggy overcharged. Other shops included the casino, a store that offered games, bowling, & babysitting ($100 a month for a membership), & a cubby cleaning service.