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I think this is some more social justice feel good bullshit and I doubt it will ever really come to pass as a real requirement. More trying to distract attention from the real problems that you are not fixing.

I think the schools should help the students plan for life after high school but if little johnny has completed high school he should get his diploma. It is about what he has done, not what he is planning to do next.


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.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) said he wants to make clear that the nation’s third-largest school system is not just responsible for shepherding teenagers to the end of their senior year, but also for setting them on a path to a productive future.

“We are going to help kids have a plan, because they’re going to need it to succeed,” he said. “You cannot have kids think that 12th grade is done.”

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I wonder if start having kids and live on the government will be accepted.




 
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Funny Chicago and Illinois need a plan for their future.


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I think the schools should help the students plan for life after high school but if little johnny has completed high school he should get his diploma. It is about what he has done, not what he is planning to do next.


In my not so humble opinion, schools have no freaking business in helping little Johnie plan his future. That should be reserved for family, period.

How would you like having some semi-literate so-called "teacher" planning your kid's life?

And, remember, this piece of socialist BS is coming to us from shitcago.


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What it the State doesn't approve of his plans for the future?


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It's pretty hard to have a plan for the future when dead of gunshot wounds.
 
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No way. Once graduation rates go down this will either be cancelled or they will just start handing out 'plans'. Too much funding rides on graduation rates.



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black male Chicago HS graduation rate: 57%

47% of 20 to 24 y.o. black males in Chicago were out of school and out of work in 2014

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...-20160124-story.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...60905-htmlstory.html

first: have an education system that is worth graduating from

second: get the graduation rate up
 
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I think the schools should help the students plan for life after high school but if little johnny has completed high school he should get his diploma. It is about what he has done, not what he is planning to do next.


In my not so humble opinion, schools have no freaking business in helping little Johnie plan his future. That should be reserved for family, period.

How would you like having some semi-literate so-called "teacher" planning your kid's life?

And, remember, this piece of socialist BS is coming to us from shitcago.


Generally agree, but for some kids the teacher is as close as they'll get to caring family.

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The kids that actually graduate high school probably already have some sort of idea of what they want to do. It's the one's that aren't finishing that are the problem.




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