Paid to study? I find something inherently wrong with this. Maybe I'm just an old fogie, but I always thought that education was something to be worked at not only for the simple idea of self-improvement but for the hope of better long-term opportunities.
The program is privately-funded (thank goodness), oddly enough by the Learn and Earn initiative, conceived by former House speaker Newt Gingrich.
Would that this program had been in effect when I was attending Concord High School in the early 70's ! It sure would have beat slinging burgers and Cherry Cokes at Grady's Bowling Alley. Although I did have the added benefit of learning how to play a pretty mean game of pool, it would have been alot easier to get paid to do what I already was doing on my own time (more money, as well).
Since the program is experimental and privately-funded I cannot really admonish them for trying, but it nags at my very sensibilities.
Education is its own reward, is it not?
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No doubt sitting at a desk studying isn't as strenuous as physical labor such as shoveling snow. Many seniors in our area need that kind of help, but students today seem to feel it's beneath them and a real community need goes unfulfilled. Are our kids spoiled, or what?
Pay every one else, not the teachers?
Hire more teachers, half class size.
More planning and study hall time with students.
Can we pay the parents for parenting?
Have the parents, paid to come to school.
Hand out clothing, food and ammunition vouchers at a school board meetings.
America, has changed.
"Can we pay the parents for parenting?"
The way things seem to be going, it may come to that. My parents would be millionaires by now if that were true.
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