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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 looorg on Sunday July 09 2017, @01:11PM (1 child)
This is indeed basically catch-22 worthy. One could hope this leads to better career- or guidance-counseling from the school but I doubt that. Even if it does that would in no way by itself mean that the student can or will actually take said advice. It might not help them at all.
One alternative way of viewing this makes it sound almost like blackmail from the school, you have to have figure out your life by age 18 (or whenever it is that you graduate US High schools at). Also isn't a high school education mandatory these days? Graduation can't be since it's in large up the the student but being enrolled? I guess they could just re-institute the draft for all students that by the age of high school graduation doesn't have a college acceptance letter or a "real" job.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @05:03PM
I forsee lots of 'dropouts' and the GED industry having a nice uptick in that area.