Bank opening inside Pr. George’s school

Nina Smith, a 16-year-old student at Parkdale High School, spent the summer learning all the tips on how to handle money. Tip one: Count it accurately. Tip two: Save it wisely. Tip three: No jokes when giving it away.

"The first time I held a wad of cash, it was so exciting," she said, recalling when she thumbed through $10,000 — none of it her own.

Smith and nine other rising seniors at the Riverdale school worked for three weeks during summer vacation as tellers at local Capital One banks, training for a program considered unusual in the Washington area and the first of its kind in Prince George's County. Their free periods at school will be spent as bankers at a new branch inside the high school.

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Thomas Erdbrink 19 Aug, 2011

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