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Should Students Be Paid for Good Grades?
time.com ^
| 01/14/09
| Laura Fitzpatrick
Posted on 01/16/2009 4:42:53 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
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To: TornadoAlley3
I better gets an A ins English or I will cutz youse!
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:45:13 AM PST
by
Dr. Ursus
To: TornadoAlley3
Should teachers be paid for teaching well?
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:46:23 AM PST
by
ken5050
(Don't blame me, I voted for Palin!!)
To: Dr. Ursus
No. They should not be graded at all.
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:46:30 AM PST
by
Jeff Gordon
("An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." Churchill)
To: TornadoAlley3
No good grades should be achieved for the greater good Comrades. What are we trying to raise, filthy capitalist pigs?
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:48:00 AM PST
by
Camel Joe
("All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others"- The Pigs)
To: TornadoAlley3
A good incentive would be to get into the pants of a good looking teacher,oh wait they do that already.Never mind.
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:48:36 AM PST
by
bikerman
To: TornadoAlley3
Only if one approves of bribery.
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:48:52 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
To: TornadoAlley3
If it works and the students learn more and more graduate and become more productive, then it sure seems to be a good idea.
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:49:30 AM PST
by
PurpleMan
To: TornadoAlley3
why not?
a good high skool student could have his college education pre-paid.
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:52:20 AM PST
by
ken21
(people die and you never hear from them again.)
To: TornadoAlley3
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:53:34 AM PST
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: TornadoAlley3
No.
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.”)
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:54:06 AM PST
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(Abortion has become little more than the New Left's execution of political prisoners.)
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To: ken21
one 2nd thot,
these hafta be capitalist courses,
not socialist,
of course.
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:56:47 AM PST
by
ken21
(people die and you never hear from them again.)
To: TornadoAlley3
I demand reparations! Believe me, it wouldn't be too much.
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:57:23 AM PST
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: TornadoAlley3
a good high skool student could have his college education pre-paid.
My first response when asked this question is always no, but I might actually be willing to get behind it if that was the case. Rather than paying the students directly, tell them that the money they earn will be placed in a college fund for them. With all the money (grants, loans, etc) already out there that a student can get anyway, the money would be a wash in the end and the student might earn better grades along the way.
To: TornadoAlley3
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?
To: TornadoAlley3
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posted on
01/16/2009 5:00:28 AM PST
by
fightinJAG
(Good riddance, UAW.)
To: TornadoAlley3
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.
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posted on
01/16/2009 5:06:25 AM PST
by
JenB
To: TornadoAlley3
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.
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posted on
01/16/2009 5:13:40 AM PST
by
PeteB570
(NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
To: mewzilla
Spin is everything. Suppose it was called a scholarship based on maintenance of a certain grade level.
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posted on
01/16/2009 5:17:23 AM PST
by
ichabod1
(Change is not a destination, Hope is not a strategy)
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