I don't have a problem with this. Why are people upset?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ans ... d31ff94780

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It's doing what public schools do best: additional paperwork that doesn't really accomplish anything.

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I am going to assume you are being sarcastic.

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City Colleges accepts all CPS grads.

You can't force someone to go to college right after High School.

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This seems like people getting upset simply to be upset. Having a plan after graduation isn't a bad thing to require.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

He isn't trying to though. He's saying that everyone should have some plan after high school in order to get their diploma. What's wrong with that? Why wouldn't you want your child to have a plan even if college isn't for them?

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The article does say a job would qualify.

This is basically just requiring them to have a plan more than sit at home smoking the marijuana cigarettes.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I'm serious. The requirement doesn't have any teeth but besides that I don't see why any parent would be pissed about this.

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Maybe they all should cite a desire to follow in the tiny dancer's toe shoes, since it served him (& us) so well.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

My kid might want to take a year off before starting college and travel. He wouldn't be able to graduate.

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I wonder how the Obamas feel about that.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Lazy.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

He would be able to graduate. He just wouldn't get his diploma until the following year.

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The world needs ditch diggers too

Would never be monitored but sounds good.

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He's a boob.....how many big cities has this worked in? "crickets"

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

I'm sure this insanity won't merely increase the number of 18-year olds from a low-income family without a high school diploma working minimum wage jobs. Not at all. This will surely work as intended.

Also, needing to at least show employment (likely with a private corporation) to get a diploma from a public school certainly smells unconstitutional. I'm not exactly sure how "gainful employment [in a private business]" can be made part of the course work for publicly funded schools.

Either the kids complete the course work and get their diploma, or they do not. If you want to add "post high school planning" as a half-semester requirement like health class is (or was), fine. But necessitating college acceptance or gainful employment as a condition precedent to receiving a diploma is just silly.

Trolling posts aside, his proposal would have no legal legs whatsoever.

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...and illegal.

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This will never work. What constitutes a "plan"?

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2016

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Kids have to do community service in order to get graduate now. How is that different? These kids would be able to graduate BUT they wouldn't be able to receive a piece of paper without doing something extremely basic.

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That's why the plan is in partnership with the Ron Santo foundation.

You just have to be accepted to college which anyone can do.

Anyone who fails to get a diploma because of this doesn't deserve one. It's basically a 2 sentence essay on 'What do you plan to do after high school?'

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

So requiring state-issued identification to vote unfairly targets and oppresses minorities, but a school system with a student body nearly 40% black requiring acceptance to college in order to get a high school diploma is, what, empowering?

Ok.

This is a horrible idea. Why would someone think this is ok? What if someone's post graduation plan includes being a bum and traveling around the country just to experience different shit? That's unacceptable so they don't get a diploma even though they graduated? You can't force someone to conform to society's expectations.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

JLN is usually wrong but he isn't here. Nobody should disagree with this quote.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Fine. My two-sentence essay would read: "None of your fucking business. It's my legal right to decide what I want to do when I want to do it, so fuck you".

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Right. This is an insane proposition.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul