This Maui School Used A Student Store To Reconnect Amid Covid Uncertainty After watching some of their parents lose work early in the pandemic, students pushed to learn about financial literacy and entrepreneurship.
The classroom was packed with hungry students, as busy as any midday rush might be at a popular lunch spot. Dozens of middle schoolers waited in line, cash in hand to buy shaved ice, chips and other snacks from their peers, who scurried frantically to take orders and count change.
“We need a raspberry and tiger’s blood!”
“Where is No. 19?!”
“We don’t have any ice!”
This is the recess rush that happens every Tuesday and Thursday at Lokelani Intermediate School, where a group of eighth and seventh grade students pitched, planned and are now finding out what it takes to run a store that serves shaved ice to as many as 30 children in the short 20-minute slot that it’s open.
