Posted on 01/22/2008 12:29:55 PM PST by too much time
Fulton County schools want to pay students to stay in school a little longer.
Forty students from Creekside High and Bear Creek Middle schools in Fairburn will be the first to try the "Learn & Earn" program, where students will get paid to attend after-school tutoring programs.
Students will make approximately $8 an hour, and be eligible for bonuses if their grades improve, said Kirk Wilks, district spokesman. The initial students are in the eighth and 11th grades.
There will be a community kick-off Thursday at 3 p.m. in the Creekside High media center, 7405 Herndon Rd., Fairburn.
With the support of Fulton County Commissioner Robb Pitts, the pilot program will last 15 weeks and pay students for participation and performance. The object of the program is to determine if paying students to study will improve classroom attendance, grades and test scores, according to a news release from the district.
The initiative is funded by Charles Loudermilk, chairman and chief executive officer of Aaron Rents, through the Learning Makes A Difference Foundation. The foundation is a local non-profit designed to improve education through creative programs.
The students chosen for the program were picked by school staff, based on attendance, grades, test scores and free or reduced lunch status, the release said.
This program will fail because there is link between an outward reward that then turns into an internal motivation. It's never worked before - don't see why it will work now.
Guess this guy just has money to burn.
Please add my name to the Public Education list.
This must be my third or fourth request to you.
Thank you,
Wintertime.
Former (thank goodness) teacher here.
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Why did you decide to get out of teaching?
I want reparations!!! They owe me.
They’re just preparing them for a life on the welfare roles.
Minimum wage is $7.15. $8 an hour is more than minimum. And they expect the kids to want to go out in the real world when they graduate and take a minimum wage job? They’ll earn more by failing and staying in school as long as they can.
What idiocy.
I was in the work force 7 years before I made $8 an hour.
Sheesh!
“Theyll earn more by failing and staying in school as long as they can.”
Frankly, the public school indoctrination centers would LOVE that. More idiot voters who don’t have a clue looking for and voting for anyone who will give, give, give to them, without them having to do anything at all of value. That is the plan.
Public schools are an evil and a pox on society.
I may have to intentionally fail some classes now that I hear about this!
Why did you decide to get out of teaching?
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Retired
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