Lots goes on in Alliance City Schools over the summer, from classes to cleaning and reorganizing, everyone is preparing for a successful new school year.

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One group of students was especially busy working and learning- the special needs Intro to Employability students.

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Led by Stephanie Barr and Lucinda Owens, the special needs class spent their summer course learning job skills that will help them to gain and retain work.

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“Our hope is to make this a continuous summer program to provide much needed transition and employment skills,” notes the high school class description.

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Students visited Pizza Hut in Alliance where the manager spoke to them about employment and interview skills and answered questions.

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They also researched rules and routes of the SARTA bus system, rode the bus to Wal-Mart to purchase snacks for their classroom and then travelled back to AHS.

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Some of the students were chosen to attend the class as coaches. Junior Mercedes Jenkins was one of the job coaches.

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“They chose me because I am good at my work,” she said.

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She spent the week coaching her younger student peers on how to do tasks such as clean the classrooms.

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Students spent several days cleaning classrooms and learning custodial practices.

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The students have done a great job and any business will be lucky to have them as future employees!