“Here ya go, kid–50 bucks just for showing up!
The Oakland Unified School District, in California (where else?) has been paying kids $50 a week to go to school, provided they have perfect attendance (https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-unified-pays-students-50-week-go-school).
When I was in junior high, I knew a kid whose grandfather paid him a dollar a day not to have a tantrum. I don’t know how that turned out.
Anyway, Oakland has a $200,000 grant to pay for this experiment. How big a genius do you have to be, to see anything wrong with it? This is even better than a participation trophy. Even better than “Gooood job!”
Are we agreed that just showing up to school insures that you get an… “education”?
Seven schools and some 100 students are the white mice in this experiment.
The state of California funds public schools according to number of students (according to average attendance) + days attended, so the schools could come out way ahead financially paying only $50/week. The state pays about $22,000 annual per student, including illegal immigrants. I wonder how much of this actually goes to better education of the students.
Who says public education isn’t big business?
Bit Biz takes a hit if they sell a lousy product. Public education doesn’t.
In too many schools the kids would be better off not attending them all together. If public schools were so great, why is it made compulsory kids have to attend?