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Article: S.L. academy goes all out for peers
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2009
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From the ankles up, Jonathan Stebner looks the part of a 25-year-
old bank teller -- friendly, helpful and neat in pressed khaki
pants. But his feet, squirming as they dangle a few inches from the
ground, are definitely acting more his age.
"I'm excited," says the fifth-grader as he thrusts out his hand
for a firm shake.
Stebner and his classmates at Salt Lake Junior Academy
transformed the school's well-worn gymnasium into a business
district Thursday, complete with a bank, two retail establishments
and a grocery store. Fifty-five low-income students from a nearby
charter school, Monticello Academy, filed through the make-believe
teller windows, manned by Stebner and his classmates, picked ...