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on Sunday July 09 2017, @07:09AM
from the can-you-plan-to-fail...-and-succeed? dept.
from the can-you-plan-to-fail...-and-succeed? dept.
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.
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.
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Chicago Won't Allow High School Students to Graduate Without a Plan for the Future
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday July 09 2017, @12:44PM
Without even looking I can tell you this being Chicago some account is collecting money per application, doesn't really matter if its coming from taxpayers or directly from the kids.
I would predict this will be implemented in the future as a graduation tax... you want your kid to graduate, you'd pay anything right, so they'll increase prices to pay anything levels much like college tuition or health care. I would not be surprised if in a couple years there's a $500 "application fee" or you don't get your letter until you pay up and the cancellation-with-refund date is before the graduation letter due date so they get to keep a semester of tuition. Or it'll be used to enter the kids into the debt system.