Anyone walking into the LBI Grade School the morning of Jan. 10 would have thought they arrived at the site of a job fair, not an elementary school. In some ways, they would be right- at least for sixth-graders attending the school. Their morning schedule, in part, included a 10-minute job interview.

“I wasn’t nervous last night,” Sonny Vilardi, who was interviewing for a position as an astronomer, said prior to meeting with Long Beach Island Consolidated Board of Education member Georgene…