Business class goes global

Last month, you read about classroom businesses of 5th graders at Null Elementary in St. Charles. 

This month, their teacher, Margaret Benedict, goes to Croatia to plan an international student-to-student exchange of those “mini-societies” lessons. 

After that, the St. Charles students will exchange information with Croatian elementary students. 

Benedict told Young Saint Louis.com, “It’s real exciting to go there to plan these exchange classes.” When the planning is done, St. Charles kids will share their cultural and economic ideas and experiences with Croatian kids of the same age. 

Benedict’s meetings will be April 20-29 in Zagreb, the capitol of Croatia. That country is now recovering from bad war experiences involving countries which used to be part of Yugoslavia. 

To read the first story about the “mini-societies” class, just click on archives, select the March, 2001, edition and call up the News story.