As part of a Business-Education Partnership, every year Mayfield Electric & Water Systems chooses to participate in Reality Zone. This program is demonstrated at both Mayfield and Graves County Middle Schools and is designed to provide students with a “reality check” at how much things cost in the real world. It is a game of Life for the young students.
Before the students enter the Reality Zone, they are assigned a gross income, marital status and children by their teachers. Armed with this information, the students begin their “real lives” having to purchase groceries, pay a mortgage, buy insurance and of course pay their utility bills with their assigned incomes.
The Reality Zone is staffed with local businesses who “sell” their products and services to the students. Mayfield Electric & Water Systems’ Sherrie Powell was proud to be a part of such a wonderful program that helps to strengthen and mold today’s youth.
