A New Mayor

In June, Keagan got to go on a very cool field trip.  His 6th grade class from Lacey Elementary went to JA Biztown.  It is a small make believe town that has stores, a mayor, most of the things that you can think of to run a town and the students run it for the day.  They are trained at school for a few weeks before they come.  They learn how to write checks, keep a balance in the checking account and apply for jobs.  They get paid according to what jobs they have.  When they have their money, they have to cash their checks, pay their bills, and save a little.  They spend the entire day at biztown.  It was a lot of fun and learning! 

Keagan got the chance to be the mayor of the town.  He dressed up for his job.  He got to give an opening and closing speech and go around and see how things were going around the town.  

 

 

 I got to be a chaparone and go with him.  The store I helped with was Best Buy.

 All of the stores in Biztown are given donations from their stores.  Usually little clearance trinkets.  The kids can use their money they earn at their jobs to buy things.  They can also choose to buy pizza at lunch time.  The Mariners store is one of the favorite places to go.