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Article: What can you do with a high school diploma?
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- Chicago Defender
- Article date:
- June 16, 2006
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WASHINGTON - The high school class of 2006 will soon be history. Sons and daughters everywhere will either be going to college, trade school, the workforce or hitting the streets.
"The most common direction is college and trade school," Sharien Muhammad, counselor at Morrow High School in Morrow, Ga., said. "A lot of seniors are choosing trade school to learn things like computers automotive repairs, air conditioning and carpentry."
She explained that most graduating students are interested in college. "This has a lot to do with their parents pushing college as the answer. However, I know the most powerful man, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, is not lettered," she insisted. "There ...