The latest Education surrender: It’s not important enough to make you show up
It’s obvious why students would support such a wrong-headed measure. That teacher and administrators support it only tells you how badly they’ve given up.
Hey, let’s teach the kids that education really isn’t all that important. Now, a recorded wake-up call from a celebrity, or a makeup class?? That stuff can get you through life, little one! File this one under “values matter,” until you don’t have any any longer. Dumb but shows up is easier. Let’s shoot for that goal for a change. An idea dreamt up by the smart ones in Education, no doubt.
School day wake-up calls recorded by celebrities. Weekend makeup classes. Contests with laptop computers, private concerts and cars as prizes.
Educators across the nation are using creative strategies as another school year gets under way to convince students and parents that regular attendance matters — and not just for grades and achievement.
via New attendance push prized by students, educators
My parents used the opposite approach…take ‘things’ away.
Nothing wrong with incentives, Dan.
What IS wrong is that we have a quasi-government monopoly (the worst, most intransigent kind) in K-12 education.
Kids often detest going to school because they know how crappy the experience is.
Time for MARKET forces to change all that, and the COULD…almost like magic…if allowed to.