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, @10:38PM (2 children)
I wouldn't even get a GED. The entire school (not education) system is a disaster and no one should play along with it, out of principle. Become an autodidact and get a real education; any employer who doesn't hire you over that was foolish and not worth your time anyway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @11:28PM (1 child)
...because it's just that easy.
Most people don't need teachers, mentors, or experts; they come out of the womb ready to lick the world.
/sarc
Some claim that the son of a tradesman [google.com] became the greatest writer in the English-speaking world--in an era where there was no public education and only the children of the wealthy could have such a "luxury".
Many recognize that it is far more likely that an aristocrat [google.com] with all the advantages of inherited wealth wrote all that stuff.
Not saying it's not possible to educate yourself, but most folks need lots of guidance along the way.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 10 2017, @07:33PM
"Most people don't need teachers, mentors, or experts; "
The school system provides teachers. Mentors and experts are often enough unrelated to the teaching profession. Very, very, VERY few people are self educated, but many people have been educated without much if any formal education.