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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My thought as well. If you’re dropping out, who cares? If you’re not going to let me graduate, I have no job offers, or college ideas, I’ll just not get my diploma - ‘cause I’m SURE not gonna enlist.
Just like liberals to regulate the stove when it’s the chef who can’t cook. (Hey - that’s good. I’m changing my tag line.)
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