Not to worry. They'll get paid
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Gives new meaning to the word Entitlements. What can you expect from bureaucrats whose only purpose in life is to tax and spend.

This is happening in Atlanta also. Apparently students have been getting things like MP3 players and bikes for years and now they are turning to cash. Right now in Atlanta, there are 40 plus students getting paid cash to attend after hours tutoring for math and science. What's next?

This is an effective way to get results - why would it not be legal?. In the long run the kids and community are much better off.

Wow, that is an amazingly low expectation of the youth. I know I didn't require money to make me do well in school.... Sad sad sad.

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I remember back in high school, I overheard some kids' conversations about their parents paying them for getting good marks on report cards. It was like "How many A's I get" and such.

Um, okay. For me, getting anything less than As (except in math ) was not acceptable and meant I needed improvement. And I didn't need parents to tell me that.

I agree that is a low expectation of the youth and I didn't require money to make me do well either. It is sad that these types of 'programs' are effective - even more sad that there is a need for these programs at all.
Regardless of how sad, the reality is that they work.

The reality is that many of the kids that may not be focused enough to or mature enough to go to shcool and get good grades for the 'right' reasons will be motivated by this. A thereby in time when they hopefully do become more focused or concerned about the future, it won't be too late. In working with youth and young adults in the inner-city, I've seen how many of them now regret not doing better in school and currently paying the concequences. If programs like this were in place when they were in school (before they dropped out or failed too many times etc) then maybe they could have been 'saved'.

I don't think this program is the answer, but it has been proven to work and improve the futures of these kids, helping them focus until they eventually really got it.

Sad or not, this program get's results.

I don't think it's the government's responsibility to "help kids focus". If a kid wants to slack off and not do anything with his/her life while in school, he/she should eventually land a job that reflects his/her efforts in school. If that means flipping burgers at the local joint, so be it. It's not like that child didn't know the consequences of not working hard in the beginning. If you don't work hard while you're young and get a lousy job, sucks for you.

If our government didn't take the responsibility to help kids focus in this country, have you any idea how much higher the crime rate in this country would be? It would cost the country to spend more money fighting crime, than it already spends on education just to keep it the same.

Cities like Baltimore threw millions for their school budget for years and saw results declining instead of rising. These communities insist on thinking that throwing more money into their schools will solve the problem even though everytime its done, things get worse. This is a smart move to show their critics in a way they can relate to while not have to waste millions on a situation that can not be fixed by money alone. If something like this was implemented in middle-class school systems, It would cost too much so it only makes sense to do it in areas and situations where its proven that the kids just don't care. It's sort of like the new tax incentives like the "no capital gains tax" where it only applies to those in the 10% tax bracket who wouldn't have any capital gains to tax in the first place.

More likely the students that are flipping burgers in these communities are the ones who are doing well in school. The ones that grew up in these places that saw success don't stick around to motivate or be positive role models making these kids not caring about the consequences of not working hard since they don't see what they have to lose or what they have to gain by going to school. In their eyes the grass is greener on the streets slanging rocks where they can get immediate results.