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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 Thexalon on Sunday July 09 2017, @03:03PM (1 child)
One option specifically suggested for students who can't get a job or can't get into college is to enlist in the military. Service Guarantees Citizenship!
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday July 09 2017, @05:42PM
I don't recall the book exactly now, it's has been so long since I read it, but I do remember the movie (Starship Troopers, for those wondering what the hell we are talking about) vividly. It's not entirely similar since all those people we get to hear in the movie did it because they wanted to do it or wanted to get something back - they wanted to become politicians, one wanted to have many babies (getting a license was easier if you where a citizen apparently) and the "hero" wanted to be with his Girl (he was the only one we hear about that went in for an odd reason). Non was forced due to them being high-school dropouts, at least we don't hear about them in the movie. That said we don't know about all the cannon/bug-fodder, but from the once we hear from.