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.
(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.