I like the initiative of this guy.
I would focus more on teaching the properties of sound money applied to Bitcoin instead of teaching the scoundrels of trading.
However, i seconded this too. Although a basic trading is not that bad, i guess teaching them the idea of financially literacy will cause more good than bad when these kids tried on trading.
The goal of spending time (not wasting) with financial literacy is to build up the most difficult concept to accept which is Time Preference. Time Preference is a key component for understanding why trading is not even close to the best options of subjects to teach. I can argue/explain why, in the most humble way. No troll, no irony or sarcasm here.
A sound money such as Bitcoin, will make way more sense once we understand the concept of Time Preference because this concept is what makes people to think more about the future than about the present. And as we are yet at the beginning of Bitcoin, we need to focus our efforts in teaching and rooting this concept into our future generations, as soon as possible. It's known that we tend to be lazy whenever we can. It's known that human kind is easily driven by greed, corruptible by greed, etc. We need to change this mindset the sooner the better.
Time Preference can counter this mindset in the mid/long term. And if you teach it to youngsters, I'm sure in 10 or 15 years, we may have a way better generation than ours, which is filled with corruption, greedy bastards, state control, a complete assault to our privacy, etc.
To end my small (good) rant, Time Preference is a concept that measures how much we discount on the future in detriment of the present, meaning that a Higher Time preference will make us to discount way more our future in detriment of the present. Maskes us to want to get a smaller satisfaction now, than to wait some time to get twice (or more) satisfation in the future. A Short Time Preference means we discount little in the importance we give to the future, allowing us to build a stronger mindset that enables us to hold ourselves tight and wait some time so that we can get the extra satisfaction later!
Does this makes sense? I hope so.
A very clarifying example was a study made by someone (a documentary I watched sometime ago) where the authors of the study invited a few kids of several societies/cultures and several social statuses and made them all a proposition. They were given candies, 2 to each kid iirc, and they were said that if they didn't touch the candies for somthing like 20 or 25 minutes, they would have twice the candies after that time. But they were also said they could eat the candies whenever they wanted, if they wanted. Guess what? Only 2 or 3 out of like 15 kids were mind strong enough to hold their horses and wait for the extra candies. All other kids couldn't hol themselves and end up eating the candies before the dealine.
So it's said that the kids that couldn't hold themselves and ate the candies have Higher Time Preference becaause they discounted way more on the future than the kids that held themselves and waited long enough. The latter are said to have Lower Time Preference because they discounted little (on the importance) of the future, which meant to have extra candies!
And another important fact, it's also said that Lower Time Preference is corelated with higer inteligence, but this claim, I can't backup becaus eI don't remember where I read that. Maybe it was in Bitcoin Standard book or in Fiat Standard book. Can't remember!