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The District is paying 305 students with poor academic and behavioral records to attend summer school, The Washington Examiner has learned.
The rising ninth-graders are earning $5.25 an hour to participate in the "Summer Bridge" program, which targets students identified by D.C. Public Schools as less likely than their peers to graduate high school within four years.
The 95 students who voluntarily signed up for the summer school program will receive half of an elective credit. But to fill the 400-student session with at-risk students, DCPS reached out to the Department of Employment Services. More than 300 students flagged by DCPS and who had signed up for the Summer Youth Employment Program were told that school would be their jobs this summer.
Do you believe this? Are they going to ask for minimum wages next? So many problems with this.
I actually have zero problem with this. If it causes one, just ONE student to make something of themselves instead of being a 40 year drain on my taxes as they whine endlessly about how they were disadvantaged and the dastardly 1% are stealing their money and it's not their fault that they make so little that they contribute NOTHING to the system via taxes but still claim that the most successful of us don't pay enough, it'll be a success in my eyes.
As the Documentary "Freakonomics" showed, however, the results don't really equal the ideal.
Of all the ways the government wastes money, this is not the worst. In fact, if they had some sort of incentive based reward (gee, kinda like the private sector?) I would fully support such a measure. Even better... Take it outta the worst performing teachers paycheck
Liberals rewarding mediocrity, terrible message to send to the kids who are doing the right thing.
I'm sure kids in Greenwich, CT are going to underachieve because some kids in Washington DC, who are likely poor-as-dirt, are getting five bucks an hour to go to summer school.
Give me a break.
Why do Conservatives insist on constantly punishing the poor-- and don't care a lick about incetivizing poor children.
The parents should be paying $ 5.25 an hour to the school district to send the kids to summer school. Or maybe make it sweat equity. The kids go to school three hours, get paid, and then spend three hours picking up trash or doing cleaning to earn the money.
Of all the ways the government wastes money, this is not the worst. In fact, if they had some sort of incentive based reward (gee, kinda like the private sector?) I would fully support such a measure. Even better... Take it outta the worst performing teachers paycheck
According to the article, they tried that a few years back and grades overall did not improve significantly.
I'm sure kids in Greenwich, CT are going to underachieve because some kids in Washington DC, who are likely poor-as-dirt, are getting five bucks an hour to go to summer school.
Give me a break.
Why do Conservatives insist on constantly punishing the poor-- and don't care a lick about incetivizing poor children.
Wow so you only think good kids exist in Greenwich? I actually had in mind the classmates of these "at risk" kids who are doing the right thing and aren't getting paid.
The District is paying 305 students with poor academic and behavioral records to attend summer school, The Washington Examiner has learned.
The rising ninth-graders are earning $5.25 an hour to participate in the "Summer Bridge" program, which targets students identified by D.C. Public Schools as less likely than their peers to graduate high school within four years.
The 95 students who voluntarily signed up for the summer school program will receive half of an elective credit. But to fill the 400-student session with at-risk students, DCPS reached out to the Department of Employment Services. More than 300 students flagged by DCPS and who had signed up for the Summer Youth Employment Program were told that school would be their jobs this summer.
Do you believe this? Are they going to ask for minimum wages next? So many problems with this.
Paying students to go to summer school is not a new idea. My district tried it in the 90s.
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