“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.