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City Weekly Rewind

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Throat all the time and certainly in my kids face. >> get that guy in a remedial health class stat. having earned that oh, yeah that guy name hes making a name on policy promoting the idea of less education. state senator chris buttars proposed closing the $700 million budget shortfall by proposing in part getting rid of the 12 thd grade. i for one am an education advocate. we must teach our children at the very least to never say things like this. >> i dont mind gays. but i dont want them stuff...

Broadcasts. for any northerner on the fence about whether to grab the balloons they also put dollar bills in them for extra umpf. while the rest of the country was forced to celebrate the birthday kim jong-il was nowhere to be found. which for anyone else in the country would probably be a punishable offense. republican utah state senator chris butters completed his famed tri-fektda. famous for two things. first for saying this about gay people almost one year ago to the day. he said, quote, t...

A serious nature follow up on what happens. its definitely an interesting discussion. senator chris buttars and bill cedarburg, commissioner of higher ed. appreciate you two very much. that brings us to todays blog question. should we get rid of senior year? why or why not. go to my blog and post your thoughts. ill read some of them on the air later. tough talk and a fresh warning from irans president. ivan watson with the latest from tehran. and it might be in vancouver but its not an oly...

Youre already motivated and youve, you know, youve had ap classes and youre ready to go to college. does it really make that big of an impact on a student that final year? >> well, i think it all depends on the student, obviously. we like senator buttars raising the significance of the 12th year of high school. in utah were finding that the 12th year really needs to be intensified. we need to have full four years of mathematics, we need four years of english, were just seeing too many students c...

Bill, thats a really good point. if you make that senior year more intense and you offer more, does that better the chances that maybe a student would be more motivated in school, more motivated to want to go to college. also, too, if you skip the senior year, would that affect the application process of getting into a good college? would a college say, hmm, i dont know if i want a student that skipped the senior year. >> i think a lot of those standards are more determined by a.c.t. tests and t...