On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> The Detroit Public Schools have teamed up with Walmart Stores to provide
> job training and entry-level, afterschool jobs to students at four high
> schools.
>
> The training program was kicked off today at assemblies held at Frederick
> Douglass Academy for Young Men and at Western International High.
>
> Detroit International Academy for Women and Henry Ford High will also
> participate.
>
> Students will get 11 weeks of job-readiness training during the school day
> and 10 high school credits for the class and work experience.
>
> Sean Vann, principal at Douglass, said 30 students at that school will get
> jobs at Walmart. He said the program will allow students an opportunity to
> earn money and to be exposed to people from different cultures - since all
> of the stores are in the suburbs.
>
> Donna Stern, a national coordinator for the activist group known as BAMN,
> attended the assembly at Douglass and objected to the program.
>
> “They’re going to train students to be subservient workers,” she said.
> “This is not why parents send them to school, to learn how to work for
> Walmart.”
>
> (I got this off the schools matter site, http://www.schoolsmatter.info/)
>
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