Kids have been paying for better grades, either directly to the instructor or by purchasing test answers, for centuries.
NYC is now planning to pay the kids for getting good grades
Roland G. Fryer, a 30-year-old Harvard economist known for his study of racial inequality in schools, is back in New York to again promote a big idea: Pay students cash for high scores on standardized tests and their performance might improve. And he has captured the attention of Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Across the country, educators have been experimenting with cash incentives. A program in Chelsea, Mass., gave children $25 for perfect attendance. Some Dallas schools pay children $2 for each book they read.
OK, so they’re going to use tax dollars to pay parents to be parents and now students to be students.
Is it just me, or does anyone else get the sense that with his anti-gun ideas to top it off, that Bloomberg is just a shit magnet? If it is a dumb idea, it goes directly to him.
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I will admit – my parents paid me for good grades.
However, it was my parents who paid me, not the government – and by extension, not the citizens around me.
It is pathetic when the government tries to make a Nanny State of America. It is despicable when we ask it to do it.