At La Cueva High School, students are learning about the economy -- and easing worries, news station KOAT reported.

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"At first I didn't know what to make of it," said student Nicole Devereaux. "The past couple of weeks have been really scary. Just trying to figure out what's going to happen to my future, how is this going to affect me, has been kind of scary."

Devereaux's family is trying to sell their house.

Megan Quimby, another student, is hoping to be able to pay for college.

"You start worrying about your whole college fund and you start worrying about how am I going to afford this, and what's going to happen with the market and everything," said Quimby.

In Flora Silva's economics class, they're sorting it all out by investing in their own simulated stock market.

Each group is given $100,000 to invest -- and they already know the basic rules.

"Buy low, sell high, diversify," said Quimby.

Silva said the market flux is a good learning opportunity.

"Now that we've had this meltdown, it's new to them," she said. "This is making economic history, and they're a part of it. They also realize that they're part of the solution and they're going to have to take leadership roles in business and economics and as citizens in order to help us fix it."

What the students are learning, they said, is starting to ease their concerns.

"I can apply what I learn in here when I watch the news at home at night," said Devereaux. "I can know, 'Oh yeah, so that's what that actually means.'"

The students have also been researching the presidential candidates' proposed economic solutions.

Their simulated stock market game will last for 10 weeks. The students said they hope the market will be better at the end than it was during last week's start.

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