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Mrs. Crain’s Special Education class recently opened the Tiger Coffee Shop. This coffee shop will offer hands-on, real-life learning experiences that students will carry with them long after high school. Front row left to right: Shy’Asia Pace, Alyssa Mulcahy, Destin Kendrick, Chelsey Burgans, Chris King. Back row left to right: Niam Moore, Gaven Ledbetter, Drake Harper.
Coffee order their coffee online. “We created a Google form,” Crain said. “Teachers can go in and fill in their name and how they would like their coffee. When they submit it, it comes to our classroom email.“ Before going forward with this idea, Crain researched the field to see what the teachers at THS wanted. “I asked the teachers, what they would be interested in buying,” Crain said. “I had a lot of people say coffee. We probably had eight teachers ask for coffee.” After determining the market, Crain went to school administrators for approval on this life skills project. “I talked to Mr. Coker to make sure he was all good with it, and he was fine with it,” she said. This left Crain with one last hurdle to overcome, funding the life skills project. A few years ago the special education coordinator told Mrs.
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residing in Tallassee when the images were discovered on his cell phone but left the area soon after the discovery. “He was actually apprehended later, in September of last year in Opelika, I believe by the U.S Marshalls,” Rodgers said. According to Rodgers, Smith has no prior convictions for a crime of this nature. According to Alabama Code Title 13A. Criminal Code. § 13A-12-192, Possession of Obscene Material is a Class C Felony and carries a sentence of 1-10 years in prison in Alabama.
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Crain about a website called Donorschoose. org. This website was designed by Charles Best, a teacher at a Bronx public high school. Best outlined a website where teachers could post classroom project requirements, and donors could choose the ones they wanted to help fund. To begin with, Best had his colleagues post the first 11 requests. Then it spread. Because the Internet has an expansive reach, this website allows anyone in the world to donate to a specific school project. “People in your community and around the country can donate
money for the project,” Crain said. “Most of the donors want to remain anonymous, but I know Audra Malone, Kristina Pendergrass, Catherine Durham, Jake Crain and Lee Anne Butler donated to the project, and I believe the rest are anonymous.” Not only did Donorschoose.org help fund this project, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation also helped in funding the Tallassee High School Coffee Shop. Gates was a creator of the world’s largest software business, Microsoft. Recently, Gates pledged to “meet donors halfway” and match funds for nearly every
project on Donorschoose. org. “That’s how it was funded so quickly,” she said. “I think we had six donors, but because of their matches it was literally done in two hours.” Now that Crain’s life skills project has come to fruition, her classroom will soon reap the benefits of free market capitalism. Crain says the money raised through this life skills project will go to good use in the classroom. “We want to plant a garden,” Crain said. “We have a kitchen that we cook in. We cook a Thanksgiving feast for our family, and this will help fund all of that.”
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