School-pays-students-take-test
I probably have better things to do, but I was prompted to step into the blogosphere by the announcement of this story.
Denver schools have a scheme that pays kids at Manual High School to take the CSAP test. This is paid for by private donors. The principal calls it bribery and reluctantly admits that it works.
~~~"I don't believe in it, but it works," Stein said Thursday.~~~
Paying students to show up for the state mandated testing has resulted in 100% attendance. Some people might call this pay for performance. But, of course, this would be anathema to the teachers' union who resist any attempt to associate performance with rewards.
I wonder if they view the payment of salaries as a form of bribery.
Should we bribe employees to show up for work?
Perhaps.
How else will we be able to continue funding the "entitlement" programs that pay people for doing absolutely nothing, which, of course, is exactly what the "union thugs" want.
---dan
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Still don't understand why it is so bad to use human nature to get the results we want? This doing it because you should has never worked, why should we expect the kids to be different? BTW Colfax Elementary is giving Limo rides to lunch at a resturant for kids that are profitant and excell.
The union is not advocating paying children to take tests. The alleged "Union thugs" have not stepped in the school and done anything. If you dislike unions, fine, but don't blame them for something they have nothing to do with. Unions promote people getting jobs, not sitting around getting paid for nothing. Unions are there mainly to enforce a contract, which, if honored, would make them obsolete.
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