Around 6:30 a.m, the business hallway at FHN begins to smell like a kitchen, as the chocolate chip cookies are baking in the oven. While the cookies are in the oven, Mike Freedline, a business teacher at North prepares a cart to travel around the school to sell cookies during homeroom and throughout the day. 

Freedline started selling cookies to help raise money for DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America). DECA puts young adults in real life situations to help with marketing strategies, public speeches and much more.

“It’s good to meet students that you don’t necessarily have a class with,” Freedline said.

Due to the fact that homeroom only happens on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Freedline also sells them outside of his classroom in room 22. Freedline sells the cookies for a dollar a bag and two cookies come in a bag. Freedline enjoys selling cookies because he gets to meet new students everyday and see some of his older students that he had in previous years. 

Freedline has two students that help him with the process of bagging and selling cookies; seniors Sarah Korte and Bailey Scarbrough. Korte is the Vice President of DECA, while Scarbrough is the President.

“This is the first year that Freedline has let us travel around during homeroom and we love it,” Scarbrough said.

Not only do Scarbrough and Korte help prepare the cookies to be sold, they go from class to class during homeroom selling cookies. 

“We love being the cookie girls,” Scarbrough said.