Marlins heading back to school
By Joe Frisaro / MLB.com
MIAMI -- Marlins employees will head back to school on Friday to take part in a Junior Achievement Day.
The event is taking place at Parkway Elementary School in Miami. In all, 26 team employees will be teaching 20 classes. From 8:30-9:30 a.m. ET, team president David Samson will be acting as "Principal for the Morning." Among his tasks will be reading the morning announcements on the in-house TV channel.
Then, accompanied by administrators, Samson will tour the school and visit the designated classes where Marlins employees will be teaching. This marks the second straight year the Marlins have thrown their backing behind Junior Achievement Day at the elementary school.
Junior Achievement is the largest and fastest growing economic education non-profit organization in the world that links the private sector with education. More than three million students in more than 1,000 communities nation-wide participated in Junior Achievement last year. And the organization is spread in more than 125 countries.
Founded in 1919, the Junior Achievement's Miami office opened in 1957. More than 500 South Florida teachers use Junior Achievement programs at no cost to schools.
Marlins employees will arrive at Parkway Elementary by 8 a.m. on Friday, and after a continental breakfast, they will be escorted to their classrooms at 9 a.m. for the first teaching block, which runs until 11 a.m. The second teaching block takes place after lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Their day wraps up at 2 p.m.
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