Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jennie Jones
“In our interest-led learning environment, we foster collaboration by holding monthly brainstorming sessions to decide how to use our monthly budget. The kids have access to a set amount each month, and when they have things they want to do that exceed that amount, they plan fundraisers. Twice this year, that has meant lemonade stands. The first lemonade stand was somewhat on a whim. One of the oldest students had the idea, and basically ran it with two friends. They made the lemonade and the signs, set it up, and after the stand had been operating for fifteen minutes, the rest of the students got wind of the event and showed up to help. This group of ‘helpers’ had been playing Minecraft while the three girls had done all the work of creating the stand. I thought we were about to have a real-life Little Red Hen lesson.” (03/27/25)
https://fee.org/articles/lemonade-stands-and-microschools-pricing-in-a-free-market-economy/