Kendall's Studio K drama club is helping their felelow students learn about the New York State Learning Standards now, so they can earn a good living later. "Learn to Earn" is a play written by James Morey of Wyoming, NY to help students understand the importance of the learning standards and how thye relate to the expectations and demands of employers.

"The higher standards that students must meet in order to graduate are the same ones they'll need to become successfully employed," said Morey, a member of the Genesee Valley BOCES Board of Education and vice chairman of GLOW (Genesee, Livingston, Orleans, Wayne) School-to-Work Partnership, an organization of volunteers committed to helping students and educators understand the employment needs of busiensses.

Kendall is the first school to put on a full-scale production of "Learn to Earn." Its seven humorous scenes illustrate the value of each of the seven learning standards. I nhe opening scene, a football coach seeks the services of a detective to find his missing Persian cat. The detective uses technology to gather evidence and the scientific method to develop various theories on the kitty's whereabouts. But before any of the theories canbe tested, a six-year old neighbor confesses to borrowing her to ocupy the girls