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, @11:04PM (1 child)
You can't be a housewife. It figures; that isn't a liberal-approved occupation.
You can't start a business. This isn't a "job" because you never get hired.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by rondon on Monday July 10 2017, @12:33PM
I think you've raised an interesting point, even despite the virtue signaling. Does this discriminate against teenage mothers who want to graduate and raise their children. Or even fathers for that matter?
For the second point, it would be exceedingly easy to show that you were "hired" by an LLC that you have formed, so I doubt that is going to stop anyone.
In fact, that may be a money making opportunity for an enterprising student - fire up an LLC that will hire any other student on a "piecework" or "part-time" basis (with no work or hours) just so they can graduate.