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[11B4V]

Chicago's new requirement for high school students: No plan, no diploma
By Ray Sanchez, CNN


(CNN)A product of Chicago's South Side, DeAvion Gillarm will be the first in his family to attend college.

"I always had a plan," said Gillarm, a Morgan Park High School graduate headed to Lincoln College next month. "You're not going to be successful without a plan."

Under a controversial new requirement, starting in 2020, students hoping to graduate from a public high school in Chicago must provide evidence they, too, have a plan for the future: either acceptance to college or a gap-year program, a trade apprenticeship, military enlistment or a job offer.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/08/us/chicago-high-school-graduation-requirement/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Top+Stories%29

[CountDeMoney]

Publice education is always about "choice", until it comes down to the darkies.

[11B4V]

Publice education is always about "choice", until it comes down to the darkies.

Darkies are pushing the plan.

[CountDeMoney]

Publice education is always about "choice", until it comes down to the darkies.

Darkies are pushing the plan.

Rahm Emmanuel is ethnic, but he's not that ethnic.   

[Razgovory]

What the hell is a "Chuff"?

I would guess from chf.

Ah.  Cryptographic hash function.  I forget there are so many computer nerds here.

[jimmy olsen]

Scary moment of the day.
Went to an ATM to withdraw 200 chuffs.... Put in my card and pin and was given the quick money withdraw screen, pressed 200 and...the machine gave me 500.
"WTF?" I said to myself and put my card back in to check my balance to see if it had given me 300 for free or just what the hell was going on .
I pressed the "Other functions/withdrawals with receipt button"....the machine took a while to process and rather than show the next screen it gave me 1000.
What the hell?
I can't go to or phone my bank as apparently nobody works Saturday (seriously?).
Checking my online banking though it seems withdrawals of 500 and 1000 were fully registered. No free money which is sad, but at least  I know they didn't mark me as having taken 10,000 or something mad.

Even if it had given it to you for free, they would have caught on eventually and demanded the money back. 

[Josquius]

Scary moment of the day.
Went to an ATM to withdraw 200 chuffs.... Put in my card and pin and was given the quick money withdraw screen, pressed 200 and...the machine gave me 500.
"WTF?" I said to myself and put my card back in to check my balance to see if it had given me 300 for free or just what the hell was going on .
I pressed the "Other functions/withdrawals with receipt button"....the machine took a while to process and rather than show the next screen it gave me 1000.
What the hell?
I can't go to or phone my bank as apparently nobody works Saturday (seriously?).
Checking my online banking though it seems withdrawals of 500 and 1000 were fully registered. No free money which is sad, but at least  I know they didn't mark me as having taken 10,000 or something mad.

Even if it had given it to you for free, they would have caught on eventually and demanded the money back. 

The concern is more giving out money I didn't ask for. Bad calculations on my account. 
Plus that this happened on a quick shopping trip on an afternoon is good. If it had happened when I was out for a drink for instance....

[Monoriu]

Chicago's new requirement for high school students: No plan, no diploma
By Ray Sanchez, CNN


(CNN)A product of Chicago's South Side, DeAvion Gillarm will be the first in his family to attend college.

"I always had a plan," said Gillarm, a Morgan Park High School graduate headed to Lincoln College next month. "You're not going to be successful without a plan."

Under a controversial new requirement, starting in 2020, students hoping to graduate from a public high school in Chicago must provide evidence they, too, have a plan for the future: either acceptance to college or a gap-year program, a trade apprenticeship, military enlistment or a job offer.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/08/us/chicago-high-school-graduation-requirement/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Top+Stories%29

I am most surprised that this isn't already the case.  Every student must have a plan.  And a gap-year is not a plan. 

[The Brain]

Is STEM a plan?

[Monoriu]

Is STEM a plan?

Not really.  I want to study STEM to get into a bank is a plan.  STEM itself isn't a plan. 

[The Brain]

Is STEM a plan?

Not really.  I want to study STEM to get into a bank is a plan.  STEM itself isn't a plan.

OK Paul.

[dps]

Chicago's new requirement for high school students: No plan, no diploma
By Ray Sanchez, CNN


(CNN)A product of Chicago's South Side, DeAvion Gillarm will be the first in his family to attend college.

"I always had a plan," said Gillarm, a Morgan Park High School graduate headed to Lincoln College next month. "You're not going to be successful without a plan."

Under a controversial new requirement, starting in 2020, students hoping to graduate from a public high school in Chicago must provide evidence they, too, have a plan for the future: either acceptance to college or a gap-year program, a trade apprenticeship, military enlistment or a job offer.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/08/us/chicago-high-school-graduation-requirement/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Top+Stories%29

I am most surprised that this isn't already the case.  Every student must have a plan.  And a gap-year is not a plan. 

It's a horrible idea.  The problem is that it means that the students at most risk for dropping out--those who have no plans or goals in the first place--are not going to be able to graduate even if they stick around and otherwise fulfill all of the requirements.  So instead of having a high school diploma and no plans, they'll have no plans and no diploma, either.

[CountDeMoney]

It's a horrible idea.  The problem is that it means that the students at most risk for dropping out--those who have no plans or goals in the first place--are not going to be able to graduate even if they stick around and otherwise fulfill all of the requirements.  So instead of having a high school diploma and no plans, they'll have no plans and no diploma, either.

Of course it's a horrible idea.  That's what's so great about it:  not only do they get to dictate to the disadvantaged, they get to punish them on top of that.  Because that's what it's all about these days.  Fuck yeah.

[Monoriu]

Chicago's new requirement for high school students: No plan, no diploma
By Ray Sanchez, CNN


(CNN)A product of Chicago's South Side, DeAvion Gillarm will be the first in his family to attend college.

"I always had a plan," said Gillarm, a Morgan Park High School graduate headed to Lincoln College next month. "You're not going to be successful without a plan."

Under a controversial new requirement, starting in 2020, students hoping to graduate from a public high school in Chicago must provide evidence they, too, have a plan for the future: either acceptance to college or a gap-year program, a trade apprenticeship, military enlistment or a job offer.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/08/us/chicago-high-school-graduation-requirement/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Top+Stories%29

I am most surprised that this isn't already the case.  Every student must have a plan.  And a gap-year is not a plan. 

It's a horrible idea.  The problem is that it means that the students at most risk for dropping out--those who have no plans or goals in the first place--are not going to be able to graduate even if they stick around and otherwise fulfill all of the requirements.  So instead of having a high school diploma and no plans, they'll have no plans and no diploma, either.

Ok.  Obviously I don't know much about US highschools.  My assumption would be, that out of the graduating class of 200, 50 wants to be a medical doctor, 50 wants to be a lawyer, 50 wants to be a banker, 49 wants to be a general office worker, and 1 has no plan.  So we need to make that one guy make up his mind as to whether he wants to be a lawyer or office worker. 

[garbon]

Oh shut up.