l.z. granderson wrote an opinion piece this weekend. kids may should go to school year round in part because we're trying to compete with the rest of the world where they're pretty serious about education. hi, l.z. what prompted you to write this piece? >> oh, man, saturd"saturday nig live" skit is a good place. it really started with my own frustrations as a parent. i have taken my son to four different schools in about two years desperately trying to get him into a school that's going to push him and have him ready to complete with the rest of the world and this is both public as well as private schools and i finally found somewhere and i'm lucky because i have the resources and the ability to do that, but everyone in this country doesn't and that really concerns me. >> in united states on average, you go to school 180 days and we're going to show you in the back where that is with other industrialized countries. you think if there was a longer school year, that would help. but finland has fewer days in the school year and they are at

l.z. granderson. and thank you both for coming on to talk about this.ood idea to restrict driving privileges for dropouts? >> well, i do think that driving is a privilege and anything that we do to send the message to students to stay in school and take it seriously is a good thing and maybe taking away the driver's license will send that message to them. >> l.z., what is your take after hearing what pedro says? >> well, i mean, i definitely think that you can get one result by enforcing such a law, but it does not address the real issue which is one kid saying that education is something they should pursue and not being forced to have, and that, two, as you mentioned in the introduction, there are some valid reasons that kids feel as if they have to drop out of school and can definitely be home helping the parents. >> and pedro, if this is a good idea, though, we talk about taking the driver's license away and they can't work and may not be able to help their families, so hem to us understalp us to u that is okay. >> again, i would agree. it is not goi

l.z. granderson says he should be listening more closely to what lawmakers say about a woman's right to have is hearing sexism and flat-out lies. >> the notion that women are z jezebels that entice men into becoming rapists or that. >> you are pro choice? >> i am pro choice and prolife. i don't see those things as being exclusive. more often than not, i would surprise to try to go through with the preg snancy. i don't believe that anyone has a right to take away the choice. a male telling a female what to do with her body. >> this is an emotional issue. it is a tough thing to talk about in the morning. as i'm reading your column, i'm seeing that your column is not so much about the abortion debate itself but how the battle is being waged. >> absolutely. i don't want to tell someone where their morality should lie with this conversation. i do think it is important that we pay the attention to the language that is being used. there is a senator in iowa who introduced a bill and basically said that a woman being raped may be the hand of god at work. there was another senator who compared a woma