Teachers at Union Academy (UA) in Macon County, GA teach the requisite reading, writing and arithmetic, but with some new programs recently implemented teachers are now being trained to teach “life skills” or “soft skills.”  

Thanks to several grant programs, the Botvin LifeSkills Class is helping students learn how to deal with real world issues, such as drugs and alcohol use. 

This program is helping students become aware of how real life situations can affect them and ways to cope with them.

Read full article: Union doing more than teaching three R’s – The Macon County News