Some High Schools Offering Cars to Students as Rewards for Good Attendance

Fox News ^ | Thursday, November 30, 2006 | AP

[Greystoke]

CASPER, Wyoming — Public schools often reward excellent attendance with movie tickets, gas vouchers and iPods. But some United States students are now hitting the ultimate teenage jackpot: They have won cars or trucks just for going to school.

Last spring, 16-year-old Kaytie Christopherson won a brand-new $28,000 pickup truck, with an MP3 player, for near-perfect school attendance.

"I take it everywhere," the high school junior said.

[Greystoke]

As I've said before, it won't be long until students are PAID for their free education. Then we will see strikes and protests - 'More money, or we won't learn!'

[dljordan]

My Dad offered to not give me a whuppin' with his belt if I attended school.

[saganite]

I still have a certificate from grade school for not missing a day for 5 straight years. I think I'm gonna apply for my Dodge Viper retroactively.

[bobby.223]

myself also. (along with my other siblings.) worked just fine!

[WisemanRAX]

I was given this 5 Cents worth certificate once...and this girl gets a vehicle.

[greccogirl]

Yeah, I went to school to avoid something and it wasn't pleasant.

[CindyDawg]

Who paid for it? Teachers don't seem to like raffles and bake sells.

[lowbridge]

i wen to publik skule and al I gots was this lowzy edumikayshun.

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School district attendance officer Gary Somerville said he also hopes to reduce the district's 29 percent dropout rate, which he blames in part on Wyoming's booming gas-and-oil industry, which can pay around $16 an hour.

Maybe we should ban any non HS graduate from working.

[Sisku Hanne]

Is this how desperate "cash-strapped" school districts spend their taxpayers' money?

[RepoGirl]

Here, the fear of being poor and homeless kept me in school... and this twit gets a car? Man, we were taken for saps.

[traditional1]

"My Dad offered to not give me a whuppin' with his belt if I attended school"

Geez, when we went to two different schools together, my Dad was givin' me the same lecture!

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[Tzimisce]

Your tax dollars at work.

[redheadtoo]

16-year-old Kaytie Christopherson won a brand-new $28,000 pickup truck, with an MP3 player, for near-perfect school attendance.

Damn, what would she have gotten for perfect attendance?

[bikerman]

A female teacher of his choice.

[bikerman]

oops a male teacher of her choice

[highimpact]

Who's the genius who thought this up? That girl is going to live the rest of her life thinking she's entitled to some kind of reward just for showing up.