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Daley (Mayor of Chicago) proposes fifth year of high school
The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | August 25, 2006 | Frank Spielman

Posted on 08/25/2006 7:23:12 PM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicagoschools; dadumbmayor; daley; damayor; dumbidea; dumbingdown; highschool; kidprison; lowerdabar; lowiq; mayordummy; obe; publicschools
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To: Clintonfatigued

How about eliminating high school for those who do not demonstrate academic aptitude?


61 posted on 08/25/2006 8:25:40 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: Clintonfatigued

If we still had the same education standards we had in the 19th century (pre-labor union control), most children by the 7th grade would be more educated than COLLEGE graduates are today. It's too bad we don't really take education seriously in this country anymore. If we did, every public school would be shuttered and we'd ban teacher labor unions.


63 posted on 08/25/2006 8:47:37 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

In Chicago, probably a 5th year would be needed just to get where the 4th year students are in Indy, Kansas or Iowa.


64 posted on 08/25/2006 8:48:48 PM PDT by bpjam (Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaida - The Religion of Peace)
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To: mcvey
Useless idiocy even in the best of the worlds [which Chicago education districts are not]. But since the politicians are supposed to regularly flatulate on "public good" issues, this pronouncement [as long as it's an idle one] is about par for the course.
65 posted on 08/25/2006 9:14:29 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: bpjam

So does the age of 18(legally an adult) not mean anything anymore??? In some instances some "fifth" year seniors will be leaving their wives or child at home to go to high school....what a joke


66 posted on 08/25/2006 9:21:44 PM PDT by annelizly
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To: Clintonfatigued

I say make the fifth year mandatory for high school students. The fifth year of high school should be taught in the USAF, USMC, USA, USCG, and the USN.


67 posted on 08/25/2006 9:24:39 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Clintonfatigued

Anyone with a bit of intelligence should be freed from this morons system when turning 15. Let the dolts stay in until they retire at 60 with a masters of the universe degree.


68 posted on 08/25/2006 9:33:56 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: Clintonfatigued

Junior's got way too much time on his hands.


69 posted on 08/25/2006 9:45:13 PM PDT by jordan8
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To: Clintonfatigued

Doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. Could include vocational classes as well as college prep course.


70 posted on 08/25/2006 10:01:49 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Clintonfatigued

A fifth year for guys like Daley, maybe...


71 posted on 08/25/2006 10:02:15 PM PDT by Redbob
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To: mcvey

I don't understand a 5th year of high school for kids who can't afford college. 1) with scholarships, loans, and work-study, everyone can afford college, they just have to look for the right place that suits their finances and 2) why not give them a free year at community college? What the hell is another year of high school going to do for them?


72 posted on 08/25/2006 10:27:33 PM PDT by radiohead (Hey Kerry, I'm still here; still hating your lying, stinking, guts you coward.)
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To: Beelzebubba
How about eliminating high school for those who do not demonstrate academic aptitude?

My dad said this was the norm years ago. If someone did not show the aptitude or interest for academics they would go to trade school.

73 posted on 08/25/2006 10:37:24 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy (Like food and fun? Join the Freeper Kitchen ping list.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Daley is like a whackjob king. No politician comes up with weirder or more asinine ideas than Daley. I don't know why Chicago puts up with him, probably like his "eccentricity".


74 posted on 08/25/2006 10:48:07 PM PDT by youthgonewild
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To: mgstarr

So you think Sawyer, Evans or Vrdolyak would have been better back in '89, huh?


75 posted on 08/25/2006 11:25:29 PM PDT by karnage
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To: CrazyIvan

Don't mistake Daley's lack of eloquence for stupidity. People say the same thing about GWB, and they said the same thing about Richie's father. They were wrong then, and you are wrong now.

Although I think a fifth year of high school is certainly a stupid idea.


76 posted on 08/25/2006 11:26:54 PM PDT by karnage
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To: youthgonewild

Daley is an excellent mayor in all the nuts-and-bolts ways. Chicago is one of the best-run big cities in America.


77 posted on 08/25/2006 11:29:31 PM PDT by karnage
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To: rottndog
BTW, if they can't educate children properly in 12 years,

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It is 13 years. You forgot kindergarten.

By the way, the NEA is pushing for pre-k ( 3 to 4 years) as well. That would add more than 20% to our whopping taxes.

My brother, a math teacher in the inner city Philly high schools, told me several years ago that Philly would like t have 5 years of high school too. He is a former electrical engineer and went into teaching in his 50s when his company ( due to taxes changes in Pennsylvania) moved to North Carolina.
78 posted on 08/26/2006 5:17:10 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stuGeeze! Government school defenders think that leapid.)
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To: Paperdoll
Democrats are not stupid. They are absolutely brilliant when it comes to spending other people's money.
79 posted on 08/26/2006 5:24:56 AM PDT by reg45
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To: AbeKrieger

Naw. Jobs project for the Chicago Teachers Union. 25% increase in High School Teachers.......


80 posted on 08/26/2006 5:27:09 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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