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Remember all those credit card tables lined up on your college campus? So alluring and dangerous, if you don't know what you're doing. Prepare your pre-college attendees for life by offering a lesson on credit management. They discuss credit reports, hidden fees, financial repercussions, and how to make a credit plan to get through college. A very important lesson intended to make savvy consumers.

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life skills, consumer finance, credit cards, financial literacy

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consumer education, credit cards, life skills, personal finance, college preparedness, credit plan, managing credit, math
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9th - 12th
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Math
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