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Reality Experience full of surprises
Life is always full of surprises and eighth-graders from around the area learned what life could bring them during the 2013 Reality Experience at the Putnam County Fairgrounds on Monday.
The Reality Experience is a scenario for eighth-graders which gives them a "job" based on their current grades, which could be anywhere from Wal-mart cashier to nuclear engineer. The children receive their salary and must budget a monthly income that includes housing, utilities, transportation, insurance and food.
Though like real life, some things and expenses are not planned for. The wheel of life helps simulate some of the random happenings that can come up.
"You can see a light go on with some," Tanis Monday, a volunteer at the experience said, "They realize what their parents are sometimes struggling with."
Greencastle Community Schools Superintendent Dawn Puckett also took a moment to volunteer at the entertainment booth. She noticed that sometimes kids would get to them and be out of money and even if they did she suggested that they go save some of the money that was left.
Another aspect of the experience was voting. While voting for a representative is a few years off for these young folks, they still had their opinion on whether minimum wage should be raised to $9.81. Many of the local eighth-graders believed that it should be increased.
The reality experience has been around for many years having first been developed by the Business and Professional Women's organization and has been taken over now by several Greencastle service clubs, including Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary, Kappa Delta Phi and Delta Theta Tau philanthropic sororities.