So summer jobs are “brainless jobs”?
My kids get plenty of school-year interaction with “being around smart peers” in their $40k/yr prep schools. It’s the summer job where my kids get practical life lessons. They get an appreciation of how real life works, and they form bonds with people from different socioeconomic classes. They learn elbow grease work ethic. They don’t need more of the Ivory Tower.
Given the summertime choice between being in a clean classroom or working a menial, grimy job, they pick the job.