When I was in high school, I don't remember a pop vending machine. You got the slop from the lunch lady with a half pint of milk, or you brown bagged it.
Ha!
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.
Maybe your school didn’t have special needs students. This school school should be commended for opportunities for special needs students. Their goals may not be yours but they are helping many students.
“”””””When people think about school coffee shops, they think, you know, they serve coffee, but it’s a full-blown coffee shop,” Sinor said.
The shop will be up and running later this year and open Monday through Friday for students and teachers.””””””
Promoting coffee to high school age kids by putting coffee shops in schools? Remember when they started handing out free condoms to the boys?
Are they considering installing some cigarette or pot machines, maybe rent small bedrooms by the hour.
I don’t remember sodas or coffee being available to the students either. Definitely not a coffee bar. There were no drinks in the classroom so other than lunch, I am not sure when you could drink soda or coffee. We did have candy machines.
Why is that mean?
It is actually a good idea.
IMHO teens should have at least a couple of jobs before they graduate. It teaches them things like showing up on time, how to start the day, how to clean up at the end, why you don't put things off and how you not doing your job hurts your fellow employees that have to pick up your slack.
And to the people who want to talk about how service industry jobs are "dead end jobs" no. They are not. If you get to be good at the job you end up in shift management, then in shop management and then with your own territory.
Ask the son of a friend of mine who is making quite good money in his early twenties because he decided to go make pizzas.
I thought you had to have a college degree to be a barista.
In Athens, GA there is a mobile coffee cart company that provides coffee for events. It’s called “Java Joy”. The employees are really sweet and they do a great job. This gives them a sense of accomplishment and a paycheck both.
There is also a coffee shop in town that is owned by the parents of a autistic child. They employee handicapped staff in their shop. I think the name is “Bitty and Beau’s”
A coffee shop training program in high school gives these students skills and experience. Those skills can apply to several retail type jobs. It’s much like the old business or shop classes we had years ago.
I think it is a great idea.
The senior highs around here (11-12 or 10-12) offer some nice options at lunch - at least at campuses where the students can leave for lunch if they want to. None of the MOOSEchelle approved meals.
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?