Joe Rodriguez, a reporter for the Mercury News recently reported that in San Jose, California:
“The city is blessed with high schools that prepare low-income, underachieving students for college, but here comes one with a twist. Students at this school will attend classes four days a week, but on the fifth they’ll put on work clothes and hoof it over to a local business, corporation or agency and put in a day’s work for a day’s pay. The catch is they can’t keep the money” (
http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_22251566/new-cristo-rey-high-school-san-jose-will).
Yes, the heady days of neo-feudalism have now arrived and with them have come the school to work pipeline that affords students the ability to be exploited, like prison inmates all in the name of education.
Pegged as an opportunity for students, so-called philanthropist John A. Sobrato, who recently donated $1.25
