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Chicago To Make Future Plans a Graduation Requirement (thehill.com)
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanual's recently approved plan will require high school students show their plans for the future before obtaining their diploma. "Students will soon have to 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 in order to graduate," reports The Hill. From the report: "We are going to help kids have a plan, because they're going to need it to succeed," Emanuel told the Post. "You cannot have kids think that 12th grade is done." But critics say the district may not be able to provide mentoring to help needy students when the rule takes effect in 2020. "It sounds good on paper, but the problem is that when you've cut the number of counselors in schools, when you've cut the kind of services that kids need, who is going to do this work?" Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, told the Post. "If you've done the work to earn a diploma, then you should get a diploma. Because if you don't, you are forcing kids into more poverty."
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BTW, go look up a guy by the name of John Taylor Gatto; he's got a really heady 5hr long interview up on youtube, one of the best read people you'll ever find. The point of public schooling is to constrain creativity by prolonging childhood for as long as possible. Why do you need a 6 year masters degree to teach kindergarden? The only possible explanation is intentional indocrination by teachers unions looking to further enrich themselves at everyone elses expense. This entire article has the smell of a Rahm, the master of povery traps, having a tantrum over how badly his running of his city is going. Chicago's the only City in the US where population is dropping and people are trying to escape.