blacklightsandqueens:a-taller-tale:arirashkae:blackness-by-your-side:oh no, the gov’t tries to ruin
blacklightsandqueens:a-taller-tale:arirashkae:blackness-by-your-side:oh no, the gov’t tries to ruin lives of our younger generation AGAIN.sourceThe rule supposedly gies into effect in 2020“Under a new plan to prepare them for life after high school, Chicago Public Schools students would have to show an acceptance letter to a university, community college, apprenticeship, trade school, internship, or the armed services.”So more poor kids will join the military to ensure they get a high school diploma or they’ll be held back. *dystopia instensifies*So here’s something everyone seems to be ignoring: what resources do the schools provide for students to help them reach this requirement? Do they have regular job fairs, an alumni network, college counseling?A quote towards the end of the article mentions providing students with support to achieve the goals the board has set, but that’s as far into it as the article goes.I saw on someone else’s post last year the public education sector laid off a thousand employees, so with only three school years to implement this and dwindling people in the public education sector (not to mention no idea how much is projected to be budjected for this versus how much is actually needed) there may not be adequate resources for these kids.I mean, yeah, everyone gets accepted into the community college system in Chicago, for example, but once specifics come out are there going to be college counselors who help them fill out FAFSA forms to pay for classes? Is there something like California’s Board Of Governor’s Waiver for low income students? Because I’ve gone to community college in California off and on since I graduated in 1998, and without the BOGW I would never have been able to attend because it covered all my unit costs. Will there be organizations helping low income students afford books? I want to know if the low income students throughout the city are being given priority because honestly, this program sounds like that’s who they’re targeting. If this is going to be implemented in any way that will actually help then it needs to benefit the lower class and working class students. When it does that and I can see it planned out in detail, then I’ll consider this a good idea. -- source link
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