Yukon High School opens coffee shop to empower students with special needs

KOCO ^ | 10/10/25 | Meghan Mosley

[9YearLurker]

Yep. We’ve got a nonprofit that does exactly that at a number of coffee shop locations.

[Jamestown1630]

Your posts on this thread have been preposterous (which Merriam Webster defines as 'contrary to nature, reason, or common sense: absurd'

This school is doing good work trying to prepare special needs kids for life - and all you can do is complain about caffeine?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It is a job that people are not drawn to. So it is a job that makes money.

That is the key, find a job that produces a product that people want but that people really do not want to do. In his case pizza. Lots of pizza. You can treat the job as "something I am doing until something better comes along" or as a job where you are acquiring skills to reach the next level on the ladder.

Learn the business, learn the problems, solve the problems, profit.

[ansel12]

LOL, you really are freaked out that someone doesn’t think schools should set up their own Starbucks for school kids, it isn’t a complaint about a few special needs kids working in it, it is the for profit coffee shop hustling the kids and selling them coffee, expensive and fattening coffee at that.

Why don’t you lay off the constant personal attacks in post after post and learn to tolerate an opinion that isn’t yours.

[Jamestown1630]

Personal attacks?

Just today you’ve insulted at least two people (I don’t have time to look further) suggesting that they are ‘imagining’ things, having ‘fantasies’ making up fake numbers and making weird posts.

If you can’t stand the heat, don’t dish it out and then cry that you’re a ‘victim’ when you’re on the receiving end.

[T-Bird45]

“It sounds like a good way of providing opportunities to special needs kids to learn how to apply themselves to jobs and understand what’s needed to run a small business.”

DITTOS!!!

My wife is retired from that district as a speech pathologist who worked with those special needs students at the elementary level. When I read the article to her, she thought it was the best way to give those students a real-world experience in a supportive environment. This is a laudable endeavor that should make a real difference for them.

[Jamestown1630]

Yes, it’s a very good idea and should be adopted by other schools.

[ansel12]

Wow, you think you saw something in a discussion between me and another poster on a different thread, so you brought it to this thread and decided to make all these personal attacks against me on this thread and pretend it is about schools installing coffee shops to sell coffee to school kids?

You are sure wound up.

[Jamestown1630]

Calm down.

And have a good evening.

[ansel12]

The for profit coffee shops are being adopted by lots of schools, it is a growing business for them, don’t know about them all using special ed kids though.

[Celerity]

So help me god if they make a good cup of coffee, I’m never tipping anyone else ever again

[ClarityGuy]

Teach children the skills of life when they are young, absolutely.

But allow me to be the boy who calls school out as the emperor with no clothes.

If you need to learn something in the adult world, don’t you just up and learn it?

So why would children be different?

Why upend natural learning not to mention the everyday working of society in order to accommodate the logistical requirements of that ghastly behemoth of Horace Mann’s devising?