Pay High Schoolers to GO to School....

[chefdennis]

Well only those that skip class, not those that willing go to get an education...just another "reward to crap and discriminate against those that follow to rules...." I mean none of them should get paid, but why pay one and not the other??? Oh thats right, some need help, they are entitled to whatever it takes to help them....

Camden Pays Students $100 Each to Not Skip School

Anti-truancy program pays Camden high school students to go to school

By Teresa Masterson
Wednesday, Aug 24, 2011 | Updated 10:55 AM EDT
Camden Pays Kids $100 Each to Not Skip School | NBC Philadelphia

The city of Camden will be paying almost 70 high school students $100 each to go to school in the first three weeks of the year.

Funded by a grant that must be used by Sept. 30, the city is trying to fight truancy with a new program called I Can End Truancy (ICE-T), reports the Inquirer.

To receive the promised $100, each of the 66 targeted students must attend classes as well as conflict-resolution and anger-management workshops until Sept. 30.

Not everyone was happy about the pay-off program at Tuesday night’s school board meeting, according to the Inquirer. Board member Sean Brown voiced his anger that he just learned of the truancy program.

Former board member Jose Delgado said that it was “outrageous” and it sends the wrong message to kids, reports the Inquirer.

The required state minimum attendance rate is 90 percent. Camden made the minimum requirement last year, but it has been below 90 percent in past years, according to Ramona Pearson-Hunter, the district's director of alternative programs.

"We had talked about it [truancy] for a long time," Camden Mayor Dana Redd told the Inquirer. "We wanted to come up with an innovative model."

A student in New Jersey is considered truant is they have 10 or more unexcused absences.

 

[mcavoy33]

How can you blame the school, they need those students to attend to get their funding. If I was a taxpayer with a student there, I'd prefer to see those students get $100 than the school losing a portion of external funding and my tax bill go up.

However, I doubt students are swayed by $100, I betmaybe 10 of those studentsmake it. But if those 10 students can save the school thousands in funding, then it's a smart move.

Sometimes you need to look at the bigger picture instead of bashing for the sake of whining about everything that is going wrong. It's a proactive policy imo.

 

[moose]

Redefining the meaning of 'short bus' ?

 

[chefdennis]

Yes Moose, yes...

 

[LDB]

Here's an idea. Rather than $100 for doing what they are supposed to be doing how about 10 hours community service for every hour they aren't doing what they are supposed to be doing? Fail to appear at assigned time and place? Now it's 25 hours to 1 and it's in custody and in chains until completed. FEAR is what those miscreants need, not money.

 

[greg334]

How can you blame the school, they need those students to attend to get their funding. If I was a taxpayer with a student there, I'd prefer to see those students get $100 than the school losing a portion of external funding and my tax bill go up.

I agree with you up to a point. The problem I see is the idea that they have to retain their funding in order to teach kids. I don't buy that and that is the real failure of public education.

Outside of that, this is old news, been tried several times over the past 30 years and has worked marginally for the outcome of education. Most of the time it is about head count.

 

[chefdennis]

greg wrote:

Most of the time it is about head count.

there it is!! and thats all it is about...and yes it has been around for yrs, but it still doesn't make it the thing to do....

 

[greg334]

No it doesn't but is it my fault that many don't seem to care that public schools are a result of both political ideologies playing a political game with the kids?

You want to make it look like I'm sitting in left field while you and others point out the liberal thinking that created the mess but it is the fault of both liberal and conservative people who have accepted the public school system as an evil in society but needed to educate kids. IT is the same two ideologies that allowed the feds to pretty much become puppet masters of the schools and not one from either ideology has ever had the balls to put in a bill to end the madness called the department of education.

So I guess when it comes down to it, liberal and conservative are just the same because they get the same thing out of this type of program.

 

[chefdennis]

greg wrote:

No it doesn't but is it my fault that many don't seem to care that public schools are a result of both political ideologies playing a political game with the kids?

You want to make it look like I'm sitting in left field while you

Feeling a bit defensive are you greg?? I mean my only comment involving you was to point out your comment that it was about head count and i totally agree...

Oh and i just went back and re-red every post on THIS thread, THIS THREAD HERE, not any others..and no one typed the word liberal or conservative anywhere...

Oh and 1 more thing, i really don't think you are alone on pointing out that public education and the department of education are both garbage and while one needs reform the other needs desolved...thats been pointed out here by more then just you...and more then a few times...

 

[greg334]

That's all good, glad you pointed it all out for me. No matter, it seems the word liberal comes up a lot, so I just added my comments and don't really care.

By the way, if that was you driving up I75 the other day passing me, nice van.

 

[chefdennis]

Not sure what day, i was on i 75 in michigan alot this week, but if it was a Cargo Ma with Load 1 logo, it was me, so Thanks, it does what i bought it to do and is working out well...