Junior Achievement

So our school PTA sponsors the Junior Achievement program.  It's a business oriented program that promotes financial, economic, and business education.  Junior Achievement creates a whole curriculum for each grade level and then tries to get businesses to allow their employees to come in and teach the kids 5 lessons.  The purpose is to introduce kids to business principles and give them contact with members of the business community.  You don't have to have a specific business partnering with Junior Achievement and as is the case with our school.  We just basically ask for parent volunteers to come and teach.

I haven't taught Junior Achievement before because there have always been other parents who volunteered, but not this year.  I must have received about 8 emails asking for someone to volunteer for Junior Achievement in Paige's class.  I even got a personal email asking me specifically to do it.  I was pretty hesitant because you teach 1 lesson a week for 5 weeks and basically the timing was going to be May aka "the end of the school year" aka "a crazy busy time."  

Of course, I wouldn't be writing this if I didn't finally relent and agree to do it.  I'm not lying when I tell you I finally responded to an email from Paige's teacher agreeing to teach Junior Achievement with two emoji's --- 

As expected it wasn't easy trying to squeeze the lessons in, especially as I was out of town for 10 days in May.  Fortunately, the lesson plans and materials from Junior Achievement were awesome.  We learned about city planning, banking and then created our own businesses---fun stuff!  Paige's class was great too.  It was fun to come in and teach Paige and her friends.

Not sure if I will do it again next year, but I am definitely not opposed to it.  I should also mention that I didn't stand for re-election to our school PTA board for the upcoming year.  Rather than have a year-long constant commitment, I can now pick and choose what to do when it is convenient for me.  I just have too much on my plate especially with the Young Women at church.  Also, if I am going to do some PTA stuff, I'd like to start transitioning to the high school parent and booster groups.