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Primary schools show interest in credit union lessons

‘You are really going to get ripped off royally unless you learn how the system works,” says Alison Dowling.

She’s explaining how she generally concludes presentations to schoolchildren about debt and the power of compound interest.

“We tell them that we are really going to shock them – blow their minds. And it works.