While many of his high school classmates have their noses deep in textbooks, 16-year-old Aaron Mosby gets to spend some of his class time at Fresno’s Chaffee Zoo.
But Aaron isn’t playing hooky — he’s in an off-campus internship designed to give him real-world career experience. It’s part of his curriculum at Big Picture High School, a Fresno charter school that opened this year. Aaron is one of a growing number of high school students learning outside of the classroom in an unpaid internship and getting class credit for it.
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Posted: May 9, 2010
Article by Tracy Correa