“Earn an A? Here’s $50”
Chicago Tribune
One article that I thought was very interesting that I found was in the Chicago Tribune was “Earn an A? Here’s $50” by Carlos Sadovi. It’s talks about how over 5,000 students at 20 different schools in Chicago will receive money for their good grades. What will happen is that every 5 weeks, students will be tested in Math, English, Social Studies, science and Physical education. When a student receives an A, they get $50, a B is $35, and a C is $20. The students get paid half of it upfront and then the second half when they graduate. That means, a student would be able to make up to $4,000 by the end of their sophomore year. Chicago Public School official agree with the tradition and say it will do much good.
I believe that this new system will benefit the students in the Chicago public schools dramatically. For many students, the idea of getting good grades and then going off to college seems like a long shot. I think that now, kids will set short term goals get good grades, thus getting money. Then by the end of senior year, they will look back and see their good grades and then may use the money they receive after graduation to go to college. I also like this because the money is coming from donations, and not from taxpayers.
5 comments:
The CPS officials are a bunch of loonies if they think they can fix chicago's educational problem by bribing little kids. They gave a $15,000 dodge car to a 12 year old girl because she had a perfect attendence record. Ofcourse she cant drive the car legally for 4 years, but if the CPS can afford to buy cars for 12 year olds, why cant they buy sufficient classroom materials and qualified teachers?
max, where did you get that fact? it sounds suspicious to me.
The Week, its a magazine here is a link to the online
version of the magazine http://www.theweek.com/article/index/45171/3/3/Fighting_truancy_Toking_up_to_prevent_air-rage
take that anonymous
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/45171/3/3/
Fighting_truancy_Toking_up_to_prevent_air-rage
This system does not truly make students want to learn ,but rather just buys their interest with the cash. The problem is that once the money stops ,the kids no longer have an interest in learning.
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