Chicago high school will require students to have college-acceptance or job offer before allowing them to graduate.
victim blaming at it's finest.
cuz it's totally the MILLENIALS fault when you can't find a job right out of high school
For what very, very little it's worth, for all there's a great deal of utterly staggering stupidity involved in that particular pants-on-head proposition it's not really victim blaming, exactly, as near as I can parse. There's an out involved in that acceptance into some of the local collages is guaranteed, and
acceptance, not attendance, or anything of the nature, is what's required, ferex. Seem to recall a few other things like that, though the details are ahaha no. Something resembling the vague shape of effort to make sure there's not actual harm/blame/etc. dumped on the ones everyone with a functioning visual cortex could tell would be fucked by the policy.
Basically for all it's a really,
really stupid idea like holy shit goddamn y'all need to stop raiding the cops drug stores, and I'm still mildly boggling a good handful of hours later after first hearing about it that local teachers didn't straight up lynch whoever suggested it, it's, like. Well intentioned? Not really blaming anyone so much as trying to make sure all students are getting post-graduation prep stuff instead of just the better off ones; the requirement's supposed to force the schools to devote resources to making sure the students are able to fulfill it, not punish the ones most likely to be burdened by the thing.
If you squint real damn hard you can see what they're trying to do on a conceptual level, and why someone with a great deal of brain damage might think that was a way forward. It's just holy hell how did you people look at
chicago of all goddamn places and think this was going to end well? Or that it would end well ever, anywhere, under any circumstances, sweet zombie rhesus monkey god what the
hell were you thinking.
... though all that said, at the absolute least it's supposed to be limited to a single city-like area, and is actually something that, so far as I'm aware, hasn't really been done (mostly because it's really, blatantly,
incredibly stupid to anyone that's even been even tangentially involved with ground level education work). So, cynically/sociopathically speaking, the policy
could serve as a working data point for just how badly a trainwreck implementing it is for an education system and local economy. That kind of experimentation is kinda' why US is decentralized to the extent it is, so someone can look at something, pave a road to hell, and then everyone can thereafter point to them and demand we cut funding to infernal infrastructure projects when someone proposes that particular brand of sweet goddamn at some point afterwards. And if it fucks over a generation or two of the population in the area, well hell, that's what we have welfare and freedom of movement for <insert kefka laugh here>
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