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Chicago Public Schools to require Acceptance letters as part of Graduration

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Tripon

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CHICAGO (CBS) — Under a new plan to prepare them for life after high school, Chicago Public Schools students would have to show an acceptance letter to a university, community college, apprenticeship, trade school, internship, or the armed services.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the new graduation requirements are something he has been considering since he was first elected in 2011. He said he wants to make sure CPS students don’t treat high school graduation as the end goal.
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Starting with next year’s freshman class, in order to receive their high school diploma, all CPS students would have to show an acceptance letter to a four-year university, a community college, a trade school or apprenticeship, an internship, or a branch of the armed services.
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http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/04...equirement-have-a-plan-for-after-high-school/
 
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Yaboosh

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So the kids with the worst goals they will fail them.

Brilliant.


They will be without goals and without a diploma.
 
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This is strange. If ever there was an example of the diminished value of a high school education this is it.
 
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blackflag

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What if your family can't even afford to apply. Then you gotta go to the military?

Plus I'm sure the military and colleges will appreciate all the wasted time sending acceptance letters for kids that never intend to go.

Seems like a dumb fucking rule born out of white pivilege.
 
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Slayven

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Thats fucking disgusting, I hope someone sues and get that shit thrown out. All the problems with the school system and you put up that bullshit?
 
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Team Alucard

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Literally forcing people into the military.

Fuck this guy. There is not a worse Democrat in the entire country.

Pretty much all of Obama's biggest mistakes can be traced back to taking bad advice from this piece of shit too.
 
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adamsappel

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What if you just want to get married after high school and be a housewife/husband? Travel? What if you're rich and don't need to work? Yet another stupid idea from Rahm Emanuel.
 
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TAJ

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What a piece of shit.
Wouldn't shock me if he was getting kickbacks from recruiters.
 
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ItIsOkBro

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This seems incredibility counter productive?

Like, if someone doesn't have an acceptance letter...literally the last thing you should do is deny their high school graduation.
 
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RandomHopeInc

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Funnily enough my high school had this requirement, the YES prep school district in Houston, TX. Its not really that bad, some one's bound to accept you, like a community college.

And its not like you have to go, you just have to at least try.
 
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theWB27

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How bout you make it cheaper and easier to go to school and offer assistance in getting jobs to support oneself while there instead of this idiotic BS.
 
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devilhawk

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blackflag said:
What if your family can't even afford to apply. Then you gotta go to the military?
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Not defending this but community colleges do not normally have application fees. The applications aren't typically much more than "where do you live and did you graduate high school?"
 
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“We already have around 62 percent of our kids are already either accepted into college or accepted into community college, and our goal is to make sure nobody spikes the ball at 12th grade. We want to make 14th grade universal. That’s the new goal line,” Emanuel told CBS This Morning on Wednesday.
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High School is "free" University is not

The mayor said the need for some kind of postsecondary education or training is simply a reality for the current job market.

“The workplace today has that requirement. All we’re doing, as a school system, is catching up to the requirements of the workplace,” he said.

Chicago would be the first city to implement such a requirement, although Emanuel said it’s an idea he borrowed from charter schools.

“We need, at the public side, to help all our kids – regardless of their zip code, regardless of their background, regardless of what their family situation is – that expectation and support is provided to help kids go post-high school,” he said Tuesday evening.
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Yet none of this is designed to help. I see no massive funding movement to create additional government finamical support systems to help those who can't afford post secondary get a post secondary education. Sure the directive says part of the plan is to inform students of all the scholarships and financial aid options available to them... but that should already be happening.

There is no help listed here. All I see is that kids who can't afford post secondary will now also be considered high school drop outs. All I see here is essentially a fee for graduating high school because many will just pay to apply to post secondary with no intent of going just to graduate high school.
 
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Hazmat

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I don't know what it takes to get into a community college in Illinois, but in Texas all it takes is a high school diploma, they literally can't turn you away. I guess if it just makes you fill out a form with your guidance counselor to clear the only hurdle to registering from classes at a CC it's not awful, but it still seems troubling. There are a lot of people for whom a HS diploma is a notable achievement and a milestone for themselves and their families and I don't like making that needlessly harder.
 
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messiaen

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blackflag said:
What if your family can't even afford to apply. Then you gotta go to the military?

Plus I'm sure the military and colleges will appreciate all the wasted time sending acceptance letters for kids that never intend to go.

Seems like a dumb fucking rule born out of white pivilege.
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You apply for an application fee waiver. That's been standard for years now.
 
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devilhawk

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Hazmat said:
I don't know what it takes to get into a community college in Illinois, but in Texas all it takes is a high school diploma, they literally can't turn you away. I guess if it just makes you fill out a form with your guidance counselor to clear the only hurdle to registering from classes at a CC it's not awful, but it still seems troubling. There are a lot of people for whom a HS diploma is a notable achievement and a milestone for themselves and their families and I don't like making that needlessly harder.
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While I don't like the proposed policy, if really would be pretty easy to set aside one class period one day Senior year and have students apply to community colleges if they aren't headed elsewhere.
 
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Slayven

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What does it even prove? How does it help the children?

It is at best busy work to make some politician feel like they done something and more then likely will hinder kids from getting the documentation they earned
 
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