Daley (Mayor of Chicago) proposes fifth year of high school

The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | August 25, 2006 | Frank Spielman

[Clintonfatigued]

Mayor Daley suggested Thursday that high school be extended for a fifth year to defray college education costs now squeezing working poor and middle-class families.

[Gordongekko909]

While we're at it, why don't we mandate smaller gas tanks on cars to help people deal with rising gas prices?

[ndt]

Like a lead balloon that will go over with high school students.

[Clintonfatigued]

EGAD! I spent four years in high school, and that was bad enough!

If this gets adopted, it will give the public schools what every major reform has given them: more money.

[exit82]

If anything, the fourth year of high school needs to be eliminated. College prep courses that carry no transferable college credit in high school are a waste of time.

Kids today can handle it. Year 12 is a babysitting waste.

[AbeKrieger]

An extra year in HS will help their basketball profile when being selected by colleges. That's the name of the game in public high schools.

Tragically, likely over 50% nationwide graduate in a state of uneducatedness (sorry) and with the state of the teachers' unions, another year won't help anyway.

[MPJackal]

Oh that's brilliant. Urban parents are having a hard time keeping the kids in long enough to graduate, so let's add an extra year so more drop out. And who will pay for it?? Liberalism ALWAYS generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.

[Clintonfatigued]

Indeed! It's like telling an inmate he has to spend an extra year in jail.

[DemforBush]

Ummm....aren't taxpayers going to have to pay for that fifth year of high school?

Robbing Peter to pay Paul, IMO.

[battlegearboat]

Hey, now teachers can marry their students.

[Carling]

Mayor Daley suggested Thursday that high school be extended for a fifth year to defray college education costs now squeezing working poor and middle-class families.

So you add another year of HS at public expense and then college still must be paid for? Am I missing something here? All this does is cost each family MORE money if their kids eventually go to college.

[theDentist]

This is another money grab. Suddenly an entire batch of students that graduate are kept in the system. That many students still on the rolls requires more teachers, more supplies, more buses, more room and of course, all that requires more MONEY. A Tax Hike would be a necessity.

[bannie]

AND we need to return classes in practical skills back to the high schools. NOT EVERY KID SHOULD GO TO COLLEGE.

[RichInOC]

Hmm. I never figured Rich Daley for stupid. At least not that stupid.

[Clintonfatigued]

Given the pain this would cause both students and taxpayers, it's appropriate that someone named The Dentist would post to this thread.

[Ainast]

lol, I remember having "Senioritis" lol.

[rottndog]

So, Daley wants to increase education spending by 10% in one fell swoop to help working poor and middle class families. I'm sure raising their taxes to cover the increase in spending will help plenty.

Stupid, Stupid Dumocrats.

BTW, if they can't educate children properly in 12 years, what makes this idiot think that one more year will help?

[Paperdoll]

Talk about stupid!!!

[ChildOfThe60s]

While we're at it, why don't we mandate smaller gas tanks on cars to help people deal with rising gas prices?

You know, I think you have a future in government service.

All that money these parents will be saving on college can now be taken away by the local government as taxes to pay for that extra year in HS.

Darn, there goes another free lunch.

[A CA Guy]

Teacher's union behind that cr@p no doubt.

Try vouchers instead and it will get much better.