Daley Proposes Fifth Year of Highschool
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.
Unless something is done to loosen the college tuition collar, Daley warned that the “birth rate will go down in the United States and our knowledge-based economy will not grow.”
“You hear families today [say], ‘I’m only going to have one or two kids. College is going to cost you. If you go to a private school, it’s 40, 50, 60, 70 thousand dollars. What happens to the rest of society who can’t afford that? That’s bad for this country. It’s bad for the future of this country,” Daley said.
