Dear Parent/Guardian:
I am looking forward to having your child in Make It Your Business this six weeks. Your child will be learning skills that he/she will be able to use throughout his/her life.
In the next several weeks, your child will develop and enhance skills that will introduce them to the decision of starting their own business. We will be working with Junior Achievement. This will give your child an opportunity to learn about business, economics and the free enterprise system.
Skills mastered this semester:
Business ownership
Management
Production
Finance
Employable skills
Sales
Students will be expected to check the board upon coming into class for daily assignments. Grading will be based on completing class assignments correctly and in a timely manner. Their grades will consist of participation, classwork, and projects from management, finance, sales and the production of a business.
Attendance is of the utmost importance and will be taken and recorded. The work will be completed in class on a daily basis so the students need to be in class every day. If a student is absent, the makeup work will be posted on the board. The students may check the board at the beginning of class to see what they missed and make arrangements with me to make it up.
Students are to work quietly without distracting others. Consequences for classroom distractions are:
1. Warning
2. Phone call to parent/guardian
3. After-school detention/lunch detention
4. Referral to the office
This will be an important time for your child to learn the aspects of a business. Your child has the opportunity to gain knowledge about themselves as well as how to start a business. Your support and enthusiasm is greatly appreciated and will impact your child's success with this program. If you have any questions, you may call me at 394-2180 ext. 600 or e-mail me at esloss@mail.mcps.org.
Sincerely,
Ellen Sloss
Business Education Teacher
Please read, sign and send back with your child. Thank you.