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NCLB is having so many positive side effects in education. Now we are paying students in some cities when they receive good scores. We can't think of any better way to spend money towards improving education? This is completely stripping them of any sense of "going to school to learn." Students are becoming more focused on whether or not they're going to be getting $20 for their math test, and over-looking the fact that the rest of their lives will not be incentive-based. How about we put this "allowance" into some kind of fund towards higher education, instead of having a classroom full of 4th graders with nicer cell phones than their teachers. So really, is this what we are resorting to? Teachers have gotten so bad at motivating students that the only way to get them to study is by paying them off?
Bad idea.
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Hmm,
I actually had to get a part time job in H.S. to make money. It helped me learn responsibility. I guess I could have skipped that step in maturity and just got all A's to help pay for my car insurance instead.
think of all the drugs the slacker kids can buy with this new incentive program!
Will they also get paid when they eat healthy lunches and run fast in gym class?
I didn't know being a child could be a paying, part-time job.
My district started this last year and test scores actually improved. The children were eager to improve their grades.
Sounds like the school might be exploiting the students. The higher tests scores of the school, the more funding they receive. From the county's point of view, this is a great idea. Can you blame them?
I heard a program about this but looking at it in a different way, targeting African American impoverished communities by a Harvard Professor, here are two links to it, the first is more concise and the second one is much more in depth.
As for me, Im still not certain about paying kids...something seemingly wrong about it, but if it works under certain conditions?
http://volokh.com/posts/1157084296.shtml
http://www.freakonomicsbook.com/articles/fryer.html
There you go again, blaming teachers.
Im in agreement with anonymous...I dont think it has anything to do with the teachers. Even the principals in the schools have had their doubts about the program.
We dont blame teachers for the bad policy of "no child left behind," so therefore it would be wrong to blame teachers on this one.
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