There's a lot I can say about this place. The conditions were terrible. "Sleeping well" is a concept you should leave behind. If it's not the staff member that barges into your room and blasts a light in your face multiple times a night, it's the absolute brick of a bed you get. Or the freezing cold from the poor heating system that I'm not convinced works right. Or the creepy guy you got assigned a room with.
The showers are unsanitary. I'd see mold in the walls, curtains, and floor. We students shouldn't have to be cleaning the showers and bathrooms. It's hazardous and should be cleaned regularly by professionals. This isn't the military. It shouldn't be run like one.
Recruitment casts a wide net, resulting in a wide variety of different students. I appreciate the variety despite the more unpleasant types coming in. There's a bizarrely high student number that the admins desired. This resulted in poor resource distribution, overcrowding, and unpleasantly cramped living conditions.
Some staff members, whether unintentionally or not, treat the students in demeaning and degrading way. Many students claimed to feel as if they were being treated like a child.
There are staff members who are respectful and delightful to interact with. A certain drivers Ed instructor, an SPS instructor, a Saint or two in the kitchen, and one particularly fashionable RA are a few that come to mind.
The road and walkways are in dire need of maintenance and results in occasional trips and injuries.
My class seemed underfunded and poorly equipped. For a physical class, it lacked a lot of important things. Like a safe sparring area, functional training dummies, and more uniforms.
Leaving. This is a big one. Once you get here, you are heavily restricted with when you are allowed to leave the campus. You are given 3 days of PTO and you get one additional day per month. You are allowed to leave on the weekends, provided you submit a weekend pass by late Tuesday night. There is a pass you can attempt to get to leave the campus after classes on weekdays bit I recall the process being extremely redundant and a deliberate waste of time.
Pay is insufficient. I know the program is free but we can't do much with $64 every two weeks.
So yeah. That's my review of Cascades job corps.
The small pay and heavy restrictions on leaving campus reminded me of those old company towns.
Also there's a lot of former students popping up in homeless shelters, I've noticed.
[This review is descriptive of the state I distinctly remember it as. Any changes made to the facility are unknown to me as of...
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