Provides a unique opportunity for students to master the essential mathematics skills and competencies required in everyday living. Course work includes the areas looking for a job, applying and interviewing for a job, employer-employee relationships, figuring pay and taxes, understanding labor unions and practices, and what to do with financial decisions in the post high school period. Work study offers students a supervised experience in the world of work. After attending classes for half of the school day, the students are dismissed to their prospective job stations where the various aspects of work are learned through experience. Consumer education and money management are stressed in related instruction.
Transportation is necessary for admittance to the program.
The OWE program is designed to help students complete graduation requirements and find meaning in school. After attending school in the morning, the OWE student is employed at a business establishment an average of fifteen hours per week for which they receive wages. Students are encouraged to have a job or the prospect of a job in mind when applying for the program. Also, transportation is necessary for admittance to the program.