LACONIA — It is never too early, and maybe never too late, to learn financial literacy, and on Monday, Laconia Middle School students received real-world training in how to budget their funds in the future.

Representatives of Service Credit Union set up shop at the middle school for a program called “Bite of Reality,” where students from Tiffany Dube’s family and consumer science class used an app to choose a fictional job and salary, as well as family members including spouse and children, student loan and credit card debt, and insurance payments.

Dube said the students are part of a new family and consumer science program that kicked off last January. The program includes instruction on financial literacy, nutrition, career exploration and cooking skills.

“I’ve really been trying to d

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