San Diego City Council member Rocky Chavez is in hot water for the unusual pitch he makes to students considering enrolling in his charter School of Business and Technology. While on a May 17th recruiting trip to Oceanside High School, according to the San Diego Union Tribune, he told students that "if they want to flip burgers and drive their mother's old car," they should stay at Oceanside. But if they want "to drive a Lexus, live in a $900,000 house, and have a boat in the harbor," they should transfer to his school. That sounds like an executable verbal contract to us; we're thinking of enrolling.
"Charter school can resume recruiting, but director can't," by Lola Sherman, San Diego Union Tribune, May 25, 2004