More than 50 fifth graders, their teachers and parent volunteers headed to JA BizTown (Junior Achievement USA) for a morning of participating as citizens in a simulated town. Each student was assigned a job within the community, with job duties that interacted with and affected each other. They were paid for their work, opened savings and checking accounts, and even wrote checks to buy products from one another. They also had a mayor who opened and closed the day with a town meeting.
