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Published 24 April 2011 10:36 PM </p>

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With April being National Financial Literacy Month, it’s the perfect time to talk about three moms who turned their desire to teach their children financial survival skills into a formal program to help kids.
Pam Hardison, Leslie Clayton and Holly Powers, whose children attend Trinity Christian Academy in Addison, started “Survivor U: Wall Street to Main Street” two years ago.
“The three of us all have kids roughly the same age, and we’ve all sent kids off to college,” said Clayton, a former stockbroker and bond trader who’s semi-retired. “Several years ago, we were lamenting the fact that while they had gotten a fabulous education, they were financially illiterate and not very savvy about all the dangers that lurked out there in the college jungle, in the real world.”
So by “trial and error,” they developed a curriculum that teaches young people the crucial topics of money management, basic investing, legal and contractual obligations, social media awareness and identity theft…

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