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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: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @10:53AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @10:53AM (#536795)

    >It's not programmers you have to convince but lawyers and judges.

    Yea, great comeback: other lawyers and a judge would ___surely___ be fooled by GRSecurity's codicil.

    GPLv2 says no additional terms (to agreement between GRSecurity and further distributees)
    GRSecurity creates codicil or side-bar agreement thus adding additional terms (to agreement between GRSecurity and further distributees).
    Programmers such as you snarkily say "hehehe you'd have to convince a lawyer or a Judge".

    Just stating the facts would be enough, without even an argument.

    But hey, programmer, you know far more about the law than lawyers and such right?

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday July 09 2017, @11:59AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday July 09 2017, @11:59AM (#536801) Journal

    Wrong story.

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