DENHAM SPRINGS — Students in the Denham Springs High School Special Needs Department need your unwanted beads and parade throws after they have scraped the barrel on the last of their beads. The students use the beads and throws in learning a variety of skills, including business and math skills.
Victoria Vice, a paraprofessional educator at Denham Springs High School, said their classes use the donated beads to learn “life skills,” which includes things like customer service, counting beads and money, sorting, and making money deposits, among other things. The students take donated beads, clean, count and sort them, and then take orders from customers who want them.
Whenever they get a customer order for beads, the students fill out the order slips, go to the bead storage room to fill the order, deliver the beads to the customer’s vehicle and give the customer their invoice, Vice explained…