ISD Students ‘Go for the Gold’ at Job Olympics

Nearly 250 special needs high school students from the Independence School District and other metro schools showed off their skills during the second annual Job Olympics. Events are job tasks ranging from interviewing and secretarial duties to clothes-folding, shelf stocking and paper shredding.

“The program helps students with disabilities learn, practice and see the importance of having job skills to support employment after high school,” said Charity Cromley, process coordinator at Truman High School. Like the Olympics, students earned medals and one high school took home the traveling Job Olympics trophy. The ISD took 2nd overall.

Joining ISD students in the friendly competition at Blue Springs Christian Church, were high school students from Fort Osage, Grain Valley, Blue Springs and Raytown.