RedmondLonghorn
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CPS To Set New Graduation Requirement: Acceptance LetterStarting with next year’s freshman class, in order to receive their high school diploma, all CPS students would have to show an acceptance letter to a four-year university, a community college, a trade school or apprenticeship, an internship, or a branch of the armed services.
A school system that can't even calculate its own graduation rates correctly (or honestly) is now going to be put in the position to decide whether a student is awarded a diploma, based on its own arbitrary judgement on the student's post-high school plans?
Want to do a "gap year"? No diploma for you.
Joining the family business? You may not get a diploma either.
Unable to afford or qualify for a 4-year college, junior college or trade school? Chicago public schools will punish your future prospects even further by withholding that high school diploma.
This is completely insane, IMO.