I better gets an A ins English or I will cutz youse!
Should teachers be paid for teaching well?
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.”)
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.
Should drivers be paid to not get tickets?
Should people be paid to obey the law?
On second thought...how about a salary cap for schools?
This could be like the NFL. Schools with high test scores get more money from the taxpayers, but they are limited in how much they can spend paying students. Good students might then seek to be traded for better pay to an underperforming school with more room under its salary cap. In March, the School Board could actually hold a draft of rising 9th graders for entering high school.
It would not work because it is not fair. It would punish the naturally born stupid. It isn’t their fault they get bad grades. Pretty soon the libs would be lowering the standards for good grades even more. If that is possible.
Might as well just pay people for submitting to the leftist indoctrination and not worry about grades.
Placido was like Santa Clause on report card day. Looking over every child's card giving them praises and quarters and soliciting promises to do better next time should a child have a poor report card. We had six subjects, so with perfect attendance and conduct it was possible for every child to earn $2 for a perfect report card.
Placido was not a teacher and I think he believed by giving quarters, he was doing his part to better our education. He was in fact the school janitor. The way he dressed showed that he made little money and he lived alone in a shack (literally) on the wrong side of town. He didn't have much of a formal education and spoke in broken English. Report card day must have cost him a fortune in his eyes, but it was his was of contributing to our education.
That after a half century I can still remember his name, his face and his words of encouragement and praise attests to fact that Placido had an impact on me and my education.