Posted on 07/04/2017 6:24:28 PM PDT by BBell
Thousands of students in the US soon won’t be able to graduate high school unless they can prove they’ve lined up a job or apprenticeship, enlisted in the military, been accepted to college or joined a “gap-year” program.
The program, set to take take effect in Chicago in 2020, is supposed to get scholars in the city’s struggling school system planning for the future early, Mayor Rahm Emanuel told the Washington Post.
“We are going to help kids have a plan, because they’re going to need it to succeed,” Emanuel said. “You cannot have kids think that 12th grade is done.”
A member of New York state’s education-policy board agreed that it’s good idea to prod high-school students to have a plan for the future — but stopped short of making it a graduation requirement for Empire State high-schoolers.
“I’m concerned about making it a requirement if there aren’t job opportunities or you can’t afford to go to college,” said Board of Regents member Kathleen Cashin, a former New York City regional school superintendent.
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This is insane.
This was the in the past that was your parent’s job.
Now Big Brother marches on.
Call it “post high school,” just keep them all night too.
Thousands with a thug apprenticeship with the Sinaloa Cartel/Chicago Government ...
Does raising the kid they had in the ninth grade work.
Good idea for them to have a plan.
A horrible idea to make it compulsory and I would suspect unconstitutional.
“Too bad Chicago and Illinois have no plans”
I think that the best possible plan those students could have is to GTFO of Illinois.
Does going to prison count as a plan?
“So you see, Mudhead, with countersubversive educational priorities out there, it really helps our side to re-enlist!”
“Is that what you’re going to do when you graduate, Porgie?”
“Heck, no! I’m going to climb up a tree, cut the soles off my shoes, and learn to play the flute!”
No, it's a government that kidnaps kids that we cannot have.
TRANSLATION: You must have plans to take out student loans to fund Left-wing teachers in the “higher” education establishment.
Firesign rules!
How about if every student files a plan to go to Hillsdale College? Or maybe Wheaton? That would put an end to this real soon.
To those in Rio Linda, 'Undocumented Pharmacist' is the politically correct term for 'BLM drug pusher'
Yeah, well, most employers want a high school diploma before putting you to work. Catch-22, if anyone in Chicago has read the book.
They can plan to be one of the THOUSANDS killed each year.
600 SHOT and 8 KILLED this past weekend.
Sounds to me like people need to start spending more time at the range, 600 shot and ONLY 8 killed? Not a very good percentage.
35% drop out but only 30% of them make it to age 18 anyway.
Perfect!
I work in the Oklahoma CareerTech system, aka vo-tech. Student follow-ups are done by teachers for several years after completion to confirm what is called “positive placement.” There are three outcomes that qualify: military enlistment, employment in the trained skill or an affiliated skill, or continuing education of some kind: 2-year/4-year/further technical training. There is no requirement for the student to do any of these things but programs with low “positive placement” scores can be shut down so the funds can be moved to get better results.
Dealing drugs will not be an acceptable option, I take it...but a bunch of them will likely end up there.
Huh? How about KMA? My plans would be and are my own. Unless they be criminal in nature they are NOT the Government business!
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