QUINCY, ILL. -- Illinois lawmakers are considering a bill that would require all high school students to take four years of math before they graduate.

Some area educators say it's not a bad idea, but there are some pros and cons to the pending legislation.

At Quincy Senior High School, there are about 500 seniors who are scheduled to graduate this year and right now, the only classes offered for the fourth year of the math curriculum is statistics, trigonometry or pre calculus.

"Some of our students aren't entering college courses and our fourth year of math credit is statistics, trigonometry and pre calculus. So we might need to review whether a different level of course would be needed to prepare them for this transition," Danielle Edgar, Quincy Senior High School principal said.

Edgar said they require every senior to register for a math class for their senior year. But the district has a policy that if a student can pass the math proficiency test, that can bypass their last year of the math requirement. The proficiency test mirrors what is on the ACT college entrance exam for math. Edgar feels it should be up to the individual districts to determine what is best for their student body.

"The difficulty with a fourth year of graduation requirement would be that we have to ensure that they pass that fourth year required to actually walk across the stage with a high school diploma. Four years means that they have to have every single year of success or they potentially don't graduate on time," Edgar said.

Illinois State Senator Michael Freichs, D-Champaign, authored the pending legislation (SB3244) and said he wants to make sure that Illinois high school students can compete on a global basis and not have to take remedial math courses once they get into college.