www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1929454,00.html
<b>Students paid to go to class and get good grades
Should Students Be Paid to Do Well in School?</b>
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No! NO. NOOO.
It's too late. How dare they consider these things *after* I have finished studying.
To think that if I had got paid for it, I might have actually tried and done well. But I didn't get paid. So, No:
"If I can't be happy, everyone else must be miserable toooo!" <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo-->
(I think such profound sentiments are called egalitarianism or sharing or something. I'm very full of such fellow-feeling. Shouldn't knock one's few good qualities.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Few things in France can provoke heated debate faster than moves to tinker with the country's vaunted public-education system, which embodies republican values that date back to the French Revolution. It's especially true when the changes involve an idea as capitalistic and nonegalitarian as paying certain students â the ones most apt to fail and drop out â to attend classes and get good grades.
This is exactly what's happening in a pilot program that started this month at three vocational high schools in disadvantaged suburbs of Paris. Accounts will be set up for two classes in each school, each containing around $3,000 apiece. If the students maintain good attendance records and reach performance targets agreed upon with their teachers, reward payments will be added to their class account. But here's the catch: the students can't go and spend the money on a new iPod or an Xbox at the end of the year. Each account, which could reach a maximum of <b>$15,000</b>, can only be used to finance a school-related project or endeavor, such as <b>a class trip abroad to improve foreign-language skills</b>, computer equipment for the classroom or driving lessons to obtain a license. Still, not a bad deal.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->That's it! I'm re-enrolling. <i>In France.</i> (Need to study some French first, uh-oh.... At least I still know bits of the French national anthem. Does that count. But hey yeah! Since my foreign language skills desperately need improving, I should qualify for funding for my Special Needs <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
Yeah right. Not going back to school. Not for any money.
<b>Students paid to go to class and get good grades
Should Students Be Paid to Do Well in School?</b>
<!--emo&:furious--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/furious.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='furious.gif' /><!--endemo-->
No! NO. NOOO.
It's too late. How dare they consider these things *after* I have finished studying.
To think that if I had got paid for it, I might have actually tried and done well. But I didn't get paid. So, No:
"If I can't be happy, everyone else must be miserable toooo!" <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo-->
(I think such profound sentiments are called egalitarianism or sharing or something. I'm very full of such fellow-feeling. Shouldn't knock one's few good qualities.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Few things in France can provoke heated debate faster than moves to tinker with the country's vaunted public-education system, which embodies republican values that date back to the French Revolution. It's especially true when the changes involve an idea as capitalistic and nonegalitarian as paying certain students â the ones most apt to fail and drop out â to attend classes and get good grades.
This is exactly what's happening in a pilot program that started this month at three vocational high schools in disadvantaged suburbs of Paris. Accounts will be set up for two classes in each school, each containing around $3,000 apiece. If the students maintain good attendance records and reach performance targets agreed upon with their teachers, reward payments will be added to their class account. But here's the catch: the students can't go and spend the money on a new iPod or an Xbox at the end of the year. Each account, which could reach a maximum of <b>$15,000</b>, can only be used to finance a school-related project or endeavor, such as <b>a class trip abroad to improve foreign-language skills</b>, computer equipment for the classroom or driving lessons to obtain a license. Still, not a bad deal.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->That's it! I'm re-enrolling. <i>In France.</i> (Need to study some French first, uh-oh.... At least I still know bits of the French national anthem. Does that count. But hey yeah! Since my foreign language skills desperately need improving, I should qualify for funding for my Special Needs <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
Yeah right. Not going back to school. Not for any money.
Death to traitors.