Cars, celebrity calls used as prizes to get kids to go to school
School Attendance Incentives
In this photo taken Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, a bicycle helmet tops the container where students with a month's worth of perfect attendance can enter their names in a raffle to win the helmet and bicycle at the Maeola R. Beitzel Elementary School in Sacramento, Calif. Beitzel elementary is among the schools in the Elk Grove Unified School participating in the districts "No Excuses-Go To School " campaign to encourage students to attend school. Elk Grove Unified is among a growing number of schools and school districts across the nation that are using give aways and other incentives to counter slumping student attendance.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelii)
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remo303 posted at 8:58 pm on Mon, Sep 3, 2012.
"If a child is not at school for any reason at all, including sickness, the district does not collect revenue," the Spreckels Unified School District in Salinas, Calif., wrote in a pledge form issued this month asking parents to take vacations and to schedule routine doctor's appointments when classes are not in session.
Ahhhh. Now I understand the urgency.
My parents used to reduce absenteeism with a wooden spoon, extra chores on weekends and going to bed without supper. Now they give kids trophies and baubles to entice the little nitwits into submission.
Wunnerful. Just wunnerful.
claraG posted at 3:01 am on Tue, Sep 4, 2012.
Definitely right. Well children absolutely needs motivation.
Tookie88 posted at 10:53 pm on Tue, Sep 4, 2012.
For starters, this does not shock me that this program began in CA.
So the schools now want children who are sick to show up for at least time enough to be counted as "present" before sending them home sick? Wouldn't this idea actually spread more sickness in schools? What about the poor teachers who are exposed to these sick kids all the time...what about their health and welfare?
How about parents simply doing their job as parents and making sure their children are going to school and not taking them out for vacations during the school year...that might be a start. Rewarding students to show up for something that they should do by law is silly to say the least. How about charge parents who are not enforcing the attendance policies of the district/state with a truancy type crime or a heavy fine (way more than $50 as noted in the article).
I just feel sorry for the kids and parents who are responsible and get squat. Our society is almost teaching kids that if you don't do anything, you will be enabled, rewarded, and taken care of. And we wonder what is wrong with society these days.