{"id":632,"date":"2022-03-29T15:13:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T22:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.notajoke.net\/?p=632"},"modified":"2022-03-29T15:16:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T22:16:28","slug":"exceptional-service-serving-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notajoke.net\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"Exceptional Service: Serving Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.14news.com\/2022\/03\/21\/coffee-shop-newburgh-elementary-helping-students-with-life-work-skills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WFIE-TV Evansville, IN<\/a><br \/>\nGray Television<\/p>\n<p>Coffee shop at Newburgh Elementary helping students with life skills<\/p>\n<p>Published: Mar. 21, 2022 at 3:50 AM PDT|Updated: 11 hours ago<\/p>\n<p>Were special education students Included in the story?<\/p>\n<p>No. The assistant principal is quoted. Students are not.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s in the news?<\/p>\n<p>Newburgh Elementary School in Evansville, Indiana, has a coffee shop called Solid Grounds Coffee Shop: Establishing Skills for Life.<\/p>\n<p>Once a week, the spceial education class work with program assistants, and some fifth grade students, make pre-ordered coffee, for staff.<\/p>\n<p>Students learn how to make coffee, tea and hot cocoa using ingredients provided by the Newburgh Starbucks, with assistance by a Starbucks staff member. The beverages are then delivered by students to teachers, who take payment for the orders.<\/p>\n<p>Does it say &#8220;inclusion&#8221;?<br \/>\nSolid Grounds Coffee Shop: Establishing Skills for Life.<br \/>\nThe name refers to the special education class, skills for life.<br \/>\nExcept for some assistance from fifth graders, who are implied to not be in special education, this is a special education project not open to regular students. Because special education classes are generally smaller, the need for outside help is required. This elementary school&#8217;s coffee shop doesn&#8217;t have enough students to operate it. In what context are the fifth graders participating? It is voluntary for them, or a form of punishment?<\/p>\n<p>Is it for the student? Or is it for the teacher?<br \/>\nOnce again, special education students serve teachers, which is not their job.<\/p>\n<p>Is This the Least-Restrictive Environment?<br \/>\nLife skills classes are special education classes, separate from their peers.<\/p>\n<p>What needs to change?<br \/>\nSimplifying this question to one point: It is not the student&#8217;s job to serve coffee and other coffee shop beverages to their teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Is it for a high school diploma?<br \/>\nLife Skills classes may not go towards a high school diploma.<br \/>\nThis is at an elementary school, so it definitely doesn&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WFIE-TV Evansville, IN Gray Television Coffee shop at Newburgh Elementary helping students with life skills Published: Mar. 21, 2022 at 3:50 AM PDT|Updated: 11 hours ago Were special education students&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[25,26],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voices","tag-exceptional-service","tag-serving-coffee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notajoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notajoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notajoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notajoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notajoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.notajoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/www.notajoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notajoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notajoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notajoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}