5 years for high school? It could happen

Michigan Live ^ | January 21, 2008

[Clintonfatigued]

Right now, they’re calling it an option, but give them time. If this passes, it will gradually become mandatory and new classes on things the students don’t need to know will be imposed so the schools will have an excuse to keep them in.

[Clintonfatigued]

This proposal is coming out of Michigan.

[EggsAckley]

“If college students can take more than four years to graduate, why not high school students?”

Answer: College students (or their parents) are paying the bill. High School money comes out of ALL of our pockets.

[MissEdie]

I’ve known of 21 year olds who could not graduate, and yes they were still in public schools with 15 and 16 year olds.

[metmom]

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[PrincessB]

Why not just report the number that take 5 years? I don’t think the number is that breathtaking, but this has been going on for a long time and not unheard of. I know some one who did the 5 year plan for high school more than 20 years ago. She had some serious issues and after intervention repeated 10th grade.

[metmom]

My oldest finished in three and still didn’t spend as many hours a day on her work as public school kids do in school.

And she took Physics and calculus in her third year homeschooling.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The teachers’ unions want to waste another year of childrens’ time. The only benefit would be for the teachers, who would have more time to teach Political Correctness. More teachers would have to be hired too.

[metmom]

"This is great news," said Mary Beth Handeyside,

The idiot doesn't realize that it will only increase the dropout rate. If they can't get kids to stay in school for four years, what makes them think they'll want to go for five?

[xDGx]

Correct. This is being driven by the teachers unions.

More student-years = more jobs.

If they didn’t make it out in 4 years, an extra year isn’t going to help measurably. In fact, schools that have a large percentage of their students requiring 5 years should be classified as “underperforming” and faculty & administration should get a 20% compensation penalty.

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is the computer age, why does it now take five years to do what we used to do in four when we only had a slide rule?

[patton]

Should special ed teachers be classified as “underperforming”, and suffer a 20% compensation penalty?

[Cvengr]

People have a lifetime to complete High School at present. It’s called a GED.

[patton]

It doesn’t - my son just finished Algebra, in the seventh grade. I took it in 9th grade.

[Clintonfatigued]

“My oldest finished in three and still didn’t spend as many hours a day on her work as public school kids do in school.”

That’s because she and you were able to find well-written books and also because she was spared the ordeal of bullies, bad teachers, and intentionally boring classwork & homework.

[FrdmLvr]

Just because kids spend five years in high school does not necessarily mean they will be any better off. As a former alternative ed high school teacher, I can tell you the schools and students in them, the state, and society in general would be much further ahead if the loosers were allowed to quit school sooner and enter some sort of apprenticeship program.

All adding an extra year to high school will accomplish will be to prolong dependancy, put off self-sufficiency, increase tax liability, and give more business to teachers, administrators and the NEA.

[xDGx]

Didn’t say special ed.

Said this:

“schools that have a large percentage of their students requiring 5 years should be classified as “underperforming””

[latina4dubya]

Should special ed teachers be classified as “underperforming”, and suffer a 20% compensation penalty?

please... it's not the same thing...

[patton]

There are schools in this country, that are 100% special ed. Just about nobody graduates in 4 years - in fact, they are put out the door when they turn 21.

Shall we then cut the pay of the teachers in these schools by 20%?

It was, after all, your proposal.