This also encourages good savings habits. Fifth-graders apply and interview for positions to work in the branch. Bank officials and teachers made the final selections. The bank opens once a week for 40 minutes at a time. Each child keeps his or her own bankbook.
Tellers look up the account numbers and write receipts.
Kids can only make deposits in school, Jones said. Unlike the water bottles and free credit cards distributed on college campuses, these students receive a pencil case with pencils, pens and erasers from Bank One when they open an account, Jones said. Lynne Meredith Cohn is a Metro Detroit free-lance writer.