School Pays Kids to Go to Class: Creative or Crazy?
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2012/02/15 14:00:00
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College tuition continues to rise, but Dohn Community High School -- a dropout recovery charter school in Cincinnati -- is going in a different direction. With funding from a handful of donors -- Reuters reports that they're not using any operating funds -- DCHS is rewarding students for going to class consistently. By offering them money.
Easter Seals is offering $25 a week to all DCHS seniors who arrive to class on time every day; $10 a week for underclassmen. And surprise, surprise: it appears to be working! DCHS principal Ramon Davenport told The Associated Press, "You have students who we haven't seen in a week or two coming to school. So that tells me that this incentive that we’re trying is actually working."
Easter Seals is offering $25 a week to all DCHS seniors who arrive to class on time every day; $10 a week for underclassmen. And surprise, surprise: it appears to be working! DCHS principal Ramon Davenport told The Associated Press, "You have students who we haven't seen in a week or two coming to school. So that tells me that this incentive that we’re trying is actually working."
a CLIFF with no bottom!
Why, then, go to school? Exactly: no reason. I've seen a couple of responses on here relating to physical punishment and blind obedience, such as from:
-Randice-:
"In my day, not having my butt beat by my parents was enough incentive for me"
-tikiteek-
"my kids do what I say when I say it...PERIOD!"
PS3 Slim
"Kids are suppose to go to class they don't need to payed to go to class."
Punishment and blind obedience are not conducive to learning. They are, however, very conducive to Training. But I don't want people who are trained into avoiding punishment and blindly obeying. People coming from such training would be very boring and violent, since they think the world works via punishment and obedience.
Another comment relates to despair about those who do not attend creating choas:
-aLABiM75-
"Just what we need, more sick kids going to school and delinquents getting paid to disrupt others."
A question: if the student is being paid $10 to attend, and if they acted up, what do you suppose would be a good way to ask them to not do that?
So who are these kids who get my tax money to go to a school my tax dollars pay for?
I believe in second chances so let me know their standards and scores to prove it is actually working.
ALSO, are you trying to say this would be from taxpayers? Because most likely, it would be paid for from the lottery money that schools receive. *PACEPALM*
I think you need to take your own advice.
Add to this already crappy deal of that if they don't attend the job that they aren't being paid for, which if their parents protect them from, the kids are taken away from the parents, and which the kids can't be fired from without being unable to get a lower-end job... add to this, that they're fined if they don't attend, and we now not only have property taxation slavery of their parents, but also now not only attention slavery, but an extension of property tax to a school tax -- if your child doesn't attend school, you pay $10. Add $10 for each child. Because with what money is the child going to pay? The parents' money, of course. Then again, maybe they'll get lucky, and CPS will deem them incompetent parents, and relocate t...
Add to this already crappy deal of that if they don't attend the job that they aren't being paid for, which if their parents protect them from, the kids are taken away from the parents, and which the kids can't be fired from without being unable to get a lower-end job... add to this, that they're fined if they don't attend, and we now not only have property taxation slavery of their parents, but also now not only attention slavery, but an extension of property tax to a school tax -- if your child doesn't attend school, you pay $10. Add $10 for each child. Because with what money is the child going to pay? The parents' money, of course. Then again, maybe they'll get lucky, and CPS will deem them incompetent parents, and relocate the child to total strangers, deemed by sociopaths who are stealing our money in the form of "taxation" to be fit to parent.
Something tells me that won't help the situation. And were not you, yoadrienne, also put through this system? You have a post graduate education. Did you enjoy school? Do you think if you were fined $10 every time you weren't in class, that you'd be motivated to learn? Or would you be scared, and pretend to learn, memorizing the stuff for each class, and promptly forgetting it? That's how it goes anyways, and that forgetfulness would simply be exacerbated.
Additionally, wouldn't you prefer schools to compete for your money? Currently, they don't, and that's because they're funded through taxation. You pay taxation regardless of whether or not you got a good service. I don't see an incentive structure there that would guarantee progress and a better product. If anything, I see every reason to act as if you'd provided a service, and then give people the sub-par, giving corporations and the rich the best service, because they're the ones who are funding government, especially with bailouts for "too big to fail" businesses that aren't serving the customers, and so accordingly lose sales to other places, and those other places are failing, because of all the loops put in by big businesses to destroy competition, which is enforced with violence and coercion.
Rawsome, weed, hemp, and so forth, all being targeted by Big Oil corporations that raid places for "sanitary" or "drug" reasons that put peaceful people in jail, to be raped, and then let sociopaths (politicians that lie every 4 years and plus) go free, even to killing random, innocent people in collateral damage by puppets of mention who are funded by the CIA, such as Al Queda.
All of these corporations are owned by 12 to 13 megafamiles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Why, then, go to school? Exactly: no reason. Thus, introducing monetary incentives to attend would (as it is showing to) have a beneficial effect on what is otherwise a purely prison-like experience.
the rest of our life. thanks for the heads up.!
Dont Like It. Suck My Balls. O.M.G.
I am currently volunteering for extra tutoring, I go to a small school somewhere in the Middle Atlas (check the location here http://g.co/maps/vsxmc), and the least I can say is how impressed and humbled I was to see kids traveling such distances to attend knowing that it was fully optional.
Trust me, kids in our cities are as lazy and disinterested in studies as in the US (if not more), and I, by no means, am asking for anything else that would corrupt continuous development and innovation of any country's educational system. With all due respect, you just read something that does not exist between the lines.
SIgning off. disgusted...
"What's their motivation to learn? Because the subjects are interesting, of course!"
That will become false as the year goes on, for the following reasons:
1. School is compulsory, functioning like a babysitter. Thus, conflicts that are at home are brought to school. Because school deals with these things with a slash and dash method, these conflicts multiply, rather than being dealt with. Accordingly, any conflicts that are at home will be multiplied by schooling.
2. Natural motivation to learn. See 1.
3. Get a good job. Diplomas or even high school graduation papers, being that everyone has them, are rapidly declining in value. It's an assumption. And because more and more less-qualified people are getting them, that de-values the pool of those who worked harder. The result is that the paper becomes more and more worthless, making this less and less appealing.
If his/her parents don't send the kid to school, the kid will be plucked up by Child Protective Services. There is no pay to be in school, and you can't get fired from it.