Posted on 01/16/2009 4:42:53 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
Back in the day, a good report card earned you a parental pat on the back, but now it could be money in your pocket. Experiments with cash incentives for students have been catching on in public-school districts across the country, and so has the debate over whether they are a brilliant tool for hard-to-motivate students or bribery that will destroy any chance of fostering a love of learning. Either way, a rigorous new study — one of relatively few on such pay-for-performance programs — found that the programs get results: cash incentives help low-income students stay in school and get better grades.
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I better gets an A ins English or I will cutz youse!
Should teachers be paid for teaching well?
No. They should not be graded at all.
No good grades should be achieved for the greater good Comrades. What are we trying to raise, filthy capitalist pigs?
A good incentive would be to get into the pants of a good looking teacher,oh wait they do that already.Never mind.
Only if one approves of bribery.
If it works and the students learn more and more graduate and become more productive, then it sure seems to be a good idea.
why not?
a good high skool student could have his college education pre-paid.
Next question.
(Seriously. With teachers having sex with students, does anyone doubt there will be many teachers who will be tempted to set up kick-back schemes with their students? “I'll give you an A if you give me half.” When they're caught they and the NEA will say, “See. They are so underpaid we DROVE them to this activity.”)
one 2nd thot,
these hafta be capitalist courses,
not socialist,
of course.
I’m leaning toward thinking that this is a bad idea. Let the parents decide whether to reward their students for good performance and what those rewards might be.
Of course you will always have the problem of bad, uninvolved parents, and broken families in the low-income areas, but I’d rather not get the government into doling out even more handouts (bribes, whatever you’d like to call them) to try to put a band-aid on the more systemic problem of irresponsible parenting.
Does that make sense?
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So the little curs aren’t grateful enough for the free babysitting and “education” we’ve been providing them, so now we have to bribe them?
No. Freaking. Way.
PARENTS?
I pay my kids for good grades. I pay ‘um “A” money and they like the feel of that cold hard cash come report card time.
Spin is everything. Suppose it was called a scholarship based on maintenance of a certain grade level.
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