At school we have been talking about a new method of school that they are doing in urban places, like New York. I thought it was interisting, so i'm going to tell you about what they did.
Certian districts have either been using taxes, or contrabutions to pay students for either getting better grades, or reciving high test scores. I'm going to stop here for a moment and go over somthing. When I was young i always said- "Don't you think they sould pay us to go to school? It's practacly our life..." My parents always kinda agreed with me. (And the reason they kinda did was so that i wouldn't feel bad probobly...) I'll get more into that later... Okay. So don't forget that i said they gave money if you did better on your tests. So what if your getting a 100? and the next year you get another 100? Do you get any money? Well, thankfully there are some (sadly only some) schools that give money for high grades. My guess is that the different ways, and for different schools. For example, if P.S. 123 gets all 70s and P.S. 246 get's all 50s, it's better for 123 to do the high test scores, and the 246 to do higher test scores. Moving on. Later in the artical it talked about the things the third graders where going to buy. Many people said video games and things like that, but one girl said food. And when asked what food, she said "Spagetti." I'll stop again. Do you think that we sould pay students (posobley with our taxes) to go and buy video games? I say no. What about paying students to do good (posobly with our taxes) to get food for thier family. i say YESYESYES. But how would we know that's what they'll get? We don't, but we can make a good guess buy (again) where we are doing these things. So if you are in a poor town i say go for it, but what do you do if you are in a non poor town, with bad test scores? I like one guy's idea of play money. Maby you could buy somthing at the school store, or get out of your assigned seating for a day. I think that would be good for a wealthy town. Later on in the day, we talked about who we thought benifented the most, who benifents the non most and such. I think that the teachers benifent the most because if they get the most students to do good, they get a bonus, which makes them all want to do better, and better, and soon the school will be doing great. Which would get more people to try and get into that district. Then once they move there, there will be more people to tax, which means higher money, which means the more they get paid! But sadly for him, the person who bennifits the least is the man that started it. Because, yes, there is some fame, and yes, some people like it. But there are lots of people that dont like it. Some resons why I don't like it is because, these students will always be expecting money money money for anything they do good, and where would that take us? You may say "Well none of these kids will go to collage." True, but what if they suddonly love school because, when the teachers put hard effort into it they like it? I have a fealing you don't know what to say now.
In conclusion i think that any district even thinking about trying this out sould think REALLY hard about thier suroundings, and the way they sould aprouach it. They sould deffanatly also PRAY. ALOT. Even one year of this could lead to bad things if done the wrong way....
Well, I just thought that was a good discution topic and i desided to post how i felt.( :
If you don't mind, please comment. I would like to hear other opinions, and don't forget. You don't have to agree with me!( :
--Sarah( :
