Get Paid at School?

Lea McCaw, Reporter|December 9, 2022

How?

Lexington District 5 has decided to open its doors to all of its high school students who are unemployed. Chapin opened their career booth on November 16th to any student who would like to apply for said job. Applications will not be accepted past December 12th, 2022. Also, there are 3 different jobs available:

What?

Student Nutrition indulges students to prepare and serve nutritious student and staff meals, maintain a clean work environment, following premeditated procedures, standards, and regulations.

Clerical will have students prepare offices and other administrative areas for daily business, maintain textbook inventory, and put together various types of copies and files.

Custodial work (Maintenance) includes interior and exterior cleaning, moving furniture, lowering the flag, reporting any campus damage to supervisors, and shutting down/closing rooms when they seem to be unoccupied.

These are summaries of the work that will be included in these jobs for our students. All of these positions open up numerous opportunities for gaining skills to better their work ethic in the near future when they come across their first job or just continuing to prepare them for the future.

Why?

Many students at Chapin do not have a job. For one of many reasons, those include no way of transportation, being underage, having no free time outside of school, and even simply not knowing how to give their simple service to others. This idea Chapin has taken up will not only solve all of those problems but will also PAY them for it.