D.C. Students Should Be Paid for Summer School Attendance: Agree?

I know, that's just awful.

here at my school we have to pay to go to summer school it kinda motivates us not to fail

Why now in 2012 ? Do they feel a sense of entitlement ? Swat the parents in the ass , empower the teachers again and let's all try our hardest at whatever we may be good at . Not everyone's a mathematician or english major or good at sports for that matter . Suck it up and do your time !!!

They should be paying to attend, not receiving payment for attending.

You don't pay screw ups... but then it is Washington DC ... Home of the professional screw ups
Unless they are politicians ie...Obama , Biden, Pelosi, McCain,

If they are in summer school it is because the didn't do their work during the regular semester. Why should they be rewarded for bad behavior.

Are you kidding me!? So, its summer school that we would be paying for? Well, maybe if the students in DC were not all rich stuck up anal buttmonkeys than maybe they wouldnt need summer school. Basically this question is saying: Kids in Washington DC are to stupid to complete everything on time because they are to busy spending their millions, should taxes be raised a lot to pay for the stupidity of these spoiled little brats?

Ah now screw up or have a weakness and flunk out you go. I got sick once and missed a lot and had to go it sucked!!!! But it made me double down not to want to go again! Heck pay me I'd go every summer that new I phone is expensive!!!

I can see where they are going with this and what they are trying to do, but I would much rather prefer that, if they are going to spend the money for education anyway, it goes towards people who really want to go and can't or towards making school more effective to spark the love of learning.

The punks and don't cares will show up do nothing be problems and still get paid. In the end if you want more then minimum wage or the late shift you got to study to win the good job. I'm amazed at how many said yes!!! on this post to begin with...sad gimmie crowd is getting so big now a days :(

If you go to school it should be because you want to learn/have a career requiring the knowledge, not because you make money. School has been such a wonderful thing in my life because I absolutely love learning and I'm completely for anything that promotes the love of learning, but I highly doubt that this would. (If anything, as far as paying students, then maybe a scholarship program based on academic performance which we kind of have now, kind of.)
We will not make kids gain knowledge by scooting them to the next level because they got D's and demonstrate a level of understanding of where you'd expect a student two years younger to be. I tutor and find it absolutely shocking how much basic knowledge many high school and even college students lack because of how the public school system operates.

Geez, if I failed at school, I would be lucky to get off with some detention and a scolding from my parents! Damn lucky!
Now kids get money to fail (I'm assuming that's what summer school is for)?
What the hell!?

Yeah got their I phone, I pad, i Pod, PSP and flunking out....heck I got a d and no mall, no posse, no phone!!!!! AHHHHHHHH cut off my social live..now a days...nope. I wanted money had to work...help deliver papers, do chores, get a job in the summer....by that PHONE...nope not you just get it. Send some relatives 20 bucks and they laugh...ohhh big spender..yeah well lets see how they do if they don't go to college.

Lol, I wouldn't be able to get through school without my iPod!
That's because, despite passing and sometimes even liking school, I just couldn't keep out of detention lol!

thats a syupid idea.

No, it's NOT okay to pay them. It okay to MAKE them.

They are kids. Put on the freaking parent pants and do your job!

gives new meaning to the phrase: " you get what you pay for ".....

The problem is we have a failing educational system in this country and a lack of support by parents... It's a combination of both and I don't think paying will do anything to help their education, it might get them to class, but that's about it..

Waste of tax dollars. Cut the school budget by the total cost of the stipend.

Don't get mad when they dropout, rob your dumbasses in 10 years, and then go to prison.

You do realize you'll be paying for that too, right? When faced with a choice of paying a kid to stay in school, or pay for them to go to prison. Which one seems more logical?

in prison they will not be out in the real world causing the trouble they are going to cause.

Hey, let's not throw around stereotypes! >.>

Oh heck you need to be in 2012 it's surroundsoundtypes...they gang up on you.

people stop paying them soooo they take it...sad but right on..

So we should pay people not to commit crimes? Where's my check?

Flunk them. End of story

Make the parents go to parenting school LOL

Where's the incentive to get good grades during the regular year?

Oh wow your right!!!! Got to pay them too good call Karl!

Is the fact that they are getting paid making them smarter??? I doubt it.

IF and I mean IF it was producing smarter students then... MAYBE this is a good idea, but mostly it seems like a waste of time & money.

As far as they must not pay to attend summer school, I see no reason in paying them for studying. It is hard to have no holidays, but learning is important, especially when the results are poor, and studying can be combined with sports, for instance, to avoid too much sedentarity.

If students must work to earn their living and studying, they desserve of course to be paid for their work.

What an insanely stupid idea. This reinforces poor performance/behavior. If we are going to be paying students (which we should not) then I say pay those who work hard and perform well.


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rewarding people for bad behavior is never a real good way of changing the behavior.

If they want to pay to someone to attend school, at least pay it to good students.

Oh that is soooo wrong come on Lorenza everyone has to get a trophy!!! it will make them sad if they don't get paid too. Besides the bullie will rob the A students anyhow just not take as much if they get paid.

Oh, you're right! you're comment was a wide awake for me! Poor bullies! Sure they deserve to be paid for skipping classes, having poor test results and bad behaviour! Plus, We don't really want more nerds with they're glasses broken, isn't it?

Give me a break. If they had applied themselves or gotten help during the school year they wouldn't have to go to summer school. Wow, reward the stupid. Teach all kids to not do their work during the year but go in the summer and get paid. Wow was a racket.