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Eighth-graders start small business thanks to school cooking class
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Chef Giovanna Garcia instructs eighth-graders in her culinary program at World Language Academy. In almost every class students get a hands-on lesson, Garcia said. - photo by For The Times
Wynne Kelly and Kylie O’Donnell grinned from ear to ear, holding their first paycheck. The eighth-graders at World Language Academy in Flowery Branch recently started a small business, thanks to the culinary program at their school. “This class can give students such a sense of real life, of reality, of what they could be,” said Chef Giovanna Garcia, who instructs the program.