Chicago Mayor Calls For "Brainiac High"

theodp writes "In a private lunch with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, BusinessWeek's Michael Arndt was taken aback by the mayor's candid monologues against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the failure of public schools — Chicago's included — to adequately train kids today in technology, math, and science. Among the education fixes Daley said he's contemplating are a fifth year of high school and elite math and science academies for Chicago's brainiest students. Endless wars that divert hundreds of billions a year from schools and job training are also undermining America's competitiveness, Daley added, wondering where the public outrage is."

Comments

Re:You're missing something here

[IICV]

And the modern conservative party's answer to every problem is to throw more money at a different country. If we're going to be tossing money around, I'd prefer if it got spent here, thanks.

And if you dislike the fact that the modern conservative party isn't actually conservative, then maybe you should get off your asses and kick out the asshole politicians who think that pandering to paranoid idiots is a good way to get elected. It makes sense though, because those idiots never check what the politicians actually do (after all, liberal media is so biased and conservative media is so truthy), so the politicians can go ahead and do whatever they want as long as they mouth the right words.