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So, Rashid, we are standing in front of the auditorium where President Obama came to visit P- Tech on October 25th. >> Yes. >> So, can we go in? >> Absolutely. >> And you tell us a little bit about it? Okay. Great. >> Hello Brooklyn! >> The greeting of Hello Brooklyn was just so poignant at that particular time. >> And this was the first he had come to Brooklyn, I believe, right? >> Absolutely. Absolutely. >> The president. >> Everybody is pulling together to make sure a high school education puts young people on a path to a good job. So you guys have opportunities here that you don't find in most high schools yet. >> You're in the spotlight now for the whole-- >> We knew when we started this is bigger than us and so we still know that it's bigger than just the one P- Tech, but really it is about how do we improve the math and science across the country and how do we make sure that families are not going into debt-- >> Yeah. >> for the quality of education they need to sustain a decent lifestyle. >> What the school is trying to do is really incredible. It's trying to take kids who in the past would have had a 15- dollar an hour future and turn them into middle class middle market skilled workers who can take this six- year degree and go on to guaranteed jobs or use it to increase their chances to actually be able to complete a 4- year college degree. >> For the first two years, it's about how do you make sure the students become internship ready. >> Uh- huh. Uh- huh. >> You know, not only college ready, but also internship ready. >> Come join us around the board room. >> In year three, we just add a virtual enterprise where students have the opportunity to simulate running a company. >> Okay. So, what I'd like you guys to do, all the administrators, I'd like you to work on the business plans today. >> In the past, America has not been particularly good at connecting job creators with educators and P- Tech aims to bridge that gap. >> Titan will be a leader in quality innovative software that excites and will set a new-- >> We prepare students for a paid summer internship. That's why virtual enterprise becomes very important in year three. >> P- Tech came out of IBM. The idea is that these kids come in, they are guaranteed not only an internship at IBM, but if they complete the six- year curriculum, a job. >> It's not just about IBM being part of the [ unk ] but how does Sysco, how does Google, how does Motorola, how does the healthcare industry, how does the manufacturing come to the stable and say, this is bigger than IT? Every industry needs to be concerned about the future's workforce. >> This is a school that's meant to be inclusive and scaleable. >> If we could work here in Central Brooklyn in a crime- ridden area where parents were reluctant to send their children, then it's bigger than New York City. It's bigger than Central Brooklyn. >> You keep walking, son. >> Rahid Davis is the center of the school and he is an incredibly charismatic figure. >> Where should you be, boss? >> Upstairs-- >> Upstairs at the plant. >> Not only is he creating the strong core curriculum of basics, but he's creating wrap- around programs. He's keeping the school open longer so that kids that have volatile home lives can stay and do their schoolwork here. >> Put the hood and your hands down. Why are we still standing there, guys? >> It's a sense of I know who you are. You're not invisible to me. >> Any reason we should see all of your underpants there? >> He credits education with really saving his life and creating a foundation and I think that that's what he is doing here at P- Tech for these kids. >> I see P- Tech as this little sign of hope where we can actually do something different at this point in history in terms of because technology and education really are the civil rights issue of our time. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Is the Six-Year High School the Future of Education?","description":"Watch how a six-year high school in Brooklyn could be the model for education in the information economy.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/73aj2Sft/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-02-12T19:43:59.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/73aj2Sft.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/73aj2Sft/","duration":"PT4M20S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/73aj2Sft/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```