There is no military obligation at the end of their tour with the Chicago Military Academy, Bronzeville. But we're using the military methodology to teach kids. The 13 staff-members are Chicago public school teachers. Five have military backgrounds, and two of them pick up a check from the military as well as the school board. Students take a standard college preparatory curriculum, along with military history and military science.
All classes emphasize the military method.
In the military, we're required to taken an M-16 apart and put it back together in a certain amount of time. If you do that, you get a goal. If you don't do that again, or if you don't do it, you would get retrained, and you would get retrained to the point of the time that, you know, you get that mission accomplished, that task accomplished. There are no special entrance requirements for the academy. Any eighth-grade graduate can apply.