[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.

[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.

[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!!!

[A CA Guy]

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

Try vouchers instead and it will get much better.

[mcvey]

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This really is politics at its cheapest. How would you accredit these courses? How would you transfer them? Would out-of-state schools understand that that fifth year did not meant that the students had been held back?

The implications boggle the mind. This is not going to happen and if it does it will create such a titanic mess that, gosh, we will need another big dollar solution to solve it.

McVey

[thoughtomator]

Um... a more sensible approach would be to halve the number of years in school from 12 to 6, because that's all the material they learn these days, anyway (if that).

[Michael Goldsberry]

fifth year of high school

That's usually known as a "Freshman."

[mgstarr]

Richie is an ass and an idiot.

Lord know why Chicagoans votes for him.

I lived there during his first term.

[JHBowden]

Want to lower college costs?

End the Department of Education, which is a reactionary, affirmative action program for yuppie kids.

Artificially inflating demand for a product increases the equilibrium price.

[TWfromTEXAS]

in the mid 40's my grandmother was the last class in Texas that only had to go 11 years. she graduated from college in 3 years and was 19 when she got out. she was far smarter, and educated than most people i know.

[goodnesswins]

goodnesswins suggests they BAN HIGHSCHOOL.....if they haven't learned the basics by age 14.....they need to start learning about life.