Tag: Rahm Emanuel

‘No “Life Plan,” No Diploma’ (2017)

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Why do all the stories coming out of the Chicago school district sound like satire? This one, for instance:

No ‘Life Plan,’ No Diploma

Yowsah, yowsah! You gotta have a life plan–I mean, Life Plan–before you can graduate high school. Or so said Rahm Emanuel a few years ago, when he was mayor. If the mayor of my town ever said a thing like that, the school board would cry bloody murder and everybody else would just scratch their heads.

Whose “life plan” that he hatches out at 17 or 18 actually gets followed? And please don’t think public schools have done anything but get worse and worse over the past four years. “My life plan is to be an anti-racist superhero!” Uh-huh. “I’m gonna be famous!” Somehow. She’s a little shaky on the details.

Anyway, this story dried up and blew away when Emanuel left office; so who knows if they ever actually did it?

‘”Chicago Values” (You Gotta Be Kidding)’ (2012)

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Let’s go back to 2012, and to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel hurling invective at Chick-Fil-A for not embracing “Chicago values.”

https://leeduigon.com/2012/07/25/chicago-values-you-gotta-be-kidding/

And what are “Chicago values”? Well, all we can say for sure, based on the mayor’s Far Left Crazy babbling, is that they do not include the concept of marriage as consisting of one man and one woman.

But apparently people prowling the streets and shooting each other is okay.

Well, when the most famous resident of your city, all-time, is Al Capone, that’s gotta say something about your city’s “values.”

No ‘Life Plan,’ No Diploma

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I’m not the only one doing fantasy today. But my fantasy is pretty small potatoes compared to what the mayor of Chicago has come up with.

Mayor Rahm “No Immigration Law Here” Emanuel has decreed that, starting with the class of 2020, no Chicago high school student can receive a high school diploma unless he or she has a “life plan” which is to go into effect right after graduation ( http://www.newser.com/story/240905/no-plan-after-high-school-no-diploma-says-chicago-mayor.html ).

He stopped short of telling the graduates just what life plans will be acceptable. Go on to college, or community college, or join the military–these “life plans” are expected to bag you a diploma.

I wonder what they’d say about, “Well, I plan to have a couple of out-of-wedlock children, then win the lottery and go out West and buy a horse farm.” Or “My plan is to become famous!” Or “King o’ the world, baby! I’m gonna be king o’ the world!”

And what happens if your formally stated life plan doesn’t work out? Like, things change and for some reason you can’t join the military. Do they take  back your high school diploma? How much time will they give you to put your life plan into action. And what if you just simply change your mind about what you want to do? Can you be charged with fraud? Obtaining a high school diploma under false pretenses?

Really, this doesn’t sound like it’s been thought out all that carefully. If this were a fantasy novel, it wouldn’t hold up at all. The reader would just walk away from it.

But the fantasies concocted by our politicians–Heaven help us, those we’re stuck with!