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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @02:12PM (1 child)
Well, this is exactly how it was done in Soviet Russia. What it does not say is that most who don't satisfy the requirements will go to prizons which is probably true for Chicago.
Russians were somewhat more humane though as they offered professional schools instead of high for folks who were unlikely to satisfy. Coledges were also free, ofcource.
Pay or rot in prizon seems a westen invention.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @08:46PM
"IN Soviet Chicago, the school graduates YOU!" Hmm, seems like a meme has died.