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Chicago Won't Allow High School Students to Graduate Without a Plan for the Future

posted by martyb on Sunday July 09 2017, @07:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the can-you-plan-to-fail...-and-succeed? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

CHICAGO — To graduate from a public high school in Chicago, students will soon have to meet a new and unusual requirement: They must show that they’ve secured a job or received a letter of acceptance to college, a trade apprenticeship, a gap year program or the military.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/chicago-wont-allow-high-school-students-to-graduate-without-a-plan-for-the-future/2017/07/03/ac197222-5111-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html

To make this stranger, all the students automatically meet this requirement since they are pre-approved for a community college:

A top CPS official also acknowledged, however, that every Chicago public high school graduate essentially already meets the new standard because graduation guarantees admittance to the City Colleges of Chicago community college system.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-rahm-emanuel-high-school-requirement-met-20170405-story.html

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @08:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @08:21AM (#536782)

    Besides, who needs a college degree anyway? There are plenty of full stack tech jobs that require only a high school diploma or equivalent, right? High school graduates look at lucrative jobs openings and don't know yet every job is fake and the real requirement is an H1B visa.