Video: Students Learn Life Skills And Feed Hungry Classmates Through ‘Trooper Kitchen’

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MOOREVILLE, MISS. (WCBI) – Students at Mooreville High School are learning about profit and loss, along with the art of cooking for their classmates.
As WCBI’s Allie Martin reports, it is all part of a class for students who are working on life and living skills and it benefits the entire school.

Every Tuesday, this hallway at Mooreville High School is crowded with hungry students, ready to buy some biscuits at “Trooper Kitchen.”

School To Work Instructor Audrey Roby started “Trooper Kitchen” to help her students learn real life lessons. The students are trained to do it all.

“Each student is trained to work on each station, we have the baking station, we have two ovens, and they bake the biscuits, learn how to put the biscuits on the tray, do all the preparation, then we have the fryer station for the chicken, then a wrapping station, preparing to be sold,” Roby said.

On this day, all 132 biscuits are sold. The money goes back into “Trooper Kitchen” and it pays for groceries, and field trips for the class.

“They also learn that when you work you earn something. They don’t earn money but they earn the privilege to go to different activities, they never have to have any money, the business takes care of everything that we do,” Roby said.

Mooreville High School students say the biscuits are the perfect mid morning snack.

“It’s the best,” said MHS Student Abby Presley.

“I look forward to coming, and buying a chicken biscuit because they are really good and they raise money for our school,” said MHS Student Laiken Lambert.

Trooper Kitchen cookers also have casseroles and desserts for sale to staff members during the holidays.