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ladder of despair. Moving up on the salary scale is another scam used to
force people into colleges to seek phony degrees that carry little in the way
of education but pack a low paid punch for low paid work.
Even so, as Rodriguez noted, Cristo Rey schools are open to students
of all faiths. Sobrato said 40 percent are not Catholic. Students typically
come from families earning $35,000 a year or less a year. The school has
lined up 37 San Jose employers eager to hire the kids — lending credence
to the fact the school is little more than a recruiting center for precarious
employment, a holding tank for capitalist work in the race to the bottom.
Rodriguez reports that many of the students are in for culture shock.
When a CBS 60 Minutes news team visited Cristo Rey’s flagship school in
Chicago recently, it videotaped students learning how to knot ties for the
first time and how to shake hands with the confidence of professionals —
charm schools for the working class, disenfranchised, people of color and
the poor or better yet, for Fagin’s kids.
Whatever the students earn will go toward tuition (just like whatever
prisoners earn will go to the ‘canteen’). The cost of tuition averages about
$10,000 a year at Cristo Rey schools. Thus, the students will work to pay
debt while their employers exploit them in the name of progress and trade
student loan debt, or Student Loan Asset Backed Securities (SLABS) on
Wall Street. Sobrato said most of the families could afford to contribute
up to $1,000, with the rest covered by student earnings and various grants
and donations.
Sobrato’s $1.25 million gift was actually a challenge grant, which he
said has already been met by other seedy and smarmy ‘donors’. Take for
example another lead benefactor, Brendan J. Cassin, a venture capitalist
and Cristo Rey board member. The school’s board of directors has selected
the Rev. Peter Pabst, a Jesuit and founder of two college prep middle
schools in San Jose, as the new high school’s president.
These philanthro-pirates love to use religion as a hook to get students
and their parents to pray for pie in the sky when they die. Using
‘reverends’ without reverence, these hucksters can then clamp on to young
children like parasites looking for a host, which they are.