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Four inner-city Detroit high schools have decided that employment with Walmart is an opportunity worth training their students to pursue. The schools have a href=" [link to www.freep.com] target="_blank">teamed up with the giant merchandiser to offer a for-credit class in job-readiness training that also includes entry-level after-school jobs.

According to the Detroit Free Press, the principal at one of the schools optimistically suggested that "the program will allow students an opportunity to earn money and to be exposed to people from different cultures -- since all of the stores are in the suburbs."