This has nothing to do with unions and all to do with the archaic views on education and developers of the founders. Note that I teach in a French web school w

This has nothing to do with unions and all to do with the archaic views on education and developers of the founders. Note that I teach in a French web school where students do work on real projects from real clients, for free, in year 2 and 3. In another web school where I teach at 'master level', year 5, the project are real paid projects for real clients. It's totally possible, and I must say, it's even the rising ideology that you have to make students work on "real projects" (with wildly varying definition of what that means); so yes, it's a little bit crazy to see young students working 3 years 15 hours a day on arbitrary exercises, and calling it a school that will produce wildly creative professionals.