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Looking for advice or feedback to make some sense out of this. during the late 90s-early 2000s my school had some strange program where they taught us how to run a cash register and order fast food. once a week or so, we would have a special day where we would go to a separate building, and we would use McDonald’s play sets like the one in the picture here and we would be there for about a half hour. It was better than doing math so I didn’t mind it for the most part.


we would split up into pairs where one person would be the customer moving the hotwheels car and using construction paper to mimic money, and the other person would be operating the drive through. Our teacher would patrol around the aisles and take notes on her clipboard and correct us if we made a mistake. I didn’t understand what the point of any of this was. The teacher took it really seriously so eventually it stopped being as fun.


Every so often real McDonald’s employees would visit and they would train us. if we did really well they would give us McDonald’s coupons, so most of us ended up going to McDonald’s a few times a week to get free food.


There was this one guy in the class who was really good at it, and one day the McDonald’s workers started talking to him. He signed some piece of paper and then he walked out of the building and we never saw him again in any of our classes. that part has always bothered me the most. What happened to him?


Eventually they stopped the program after a couple years, but as I got older I’ve wondered why they made us do all of that? In college I’ve asked people if their schools did anything like that, but the answer has always been no. Which is why I’m asking you guys, why the fuck did they make us do that? What happened to that guy from class who I never saw again? Am I weird for finding this so weird?