Education incentives - The American way...

[No Comment]

In Hartford last year, 9-year-old Fernando Vazquez won a raffle for students with perfect attendance and was given the choice of a new Saturn Ion (a car, I think - No Comment) or $10,000. (His parents chose the money.) At Oldham County High School in Buckner, Ky., Krystal Brooks, 19, won a canary yellow Ford Mustang. In Temecula, Calif., the school district prizes can include iPods, DVD players and a trip to Disneyland - The New York Times.

Will this ever take off in Ireland? Read the full report here: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/education/05reward.html?_r=1&oref=slogin. I think not.

[stairway 2 hell]

nah the governments too cheep to be doing that. i wonder if they were doing it for inner city schools as well or just the better known places.

[Blumenblatt]

My how things have changed. I don't recall any incentive programs for attendance at my mostly white, middle class, high school...although they did encourage teen moms to stay in school by providing day care in the building...

[karilyn]

com'on it's being going on in ireland for years but the parents pay like "oh get so many points and we'll get you blah and a all expenses holiday to blah"

but they do pay to stay in school after gcse in the uk i think if your family earns below 30k the child gets 100 pouinds a month to do a levels. next year it's gonna be better the kids will get money if they're poor to go to uni if they got outstanding grades.

[No Comment]

Day-care and creche is fine, but a car, or ten grand to a 9 year old. Emm?

[JennyPen]

Well we do incentives in a different way, I think.

I got a drum kit for finishing (note - it was technically "passing" them, but I got an advance) my Leaving Cert (oh sweet drum kit, sitting under a duvet to protect thee from dust, I'm sorry).

I think perfect attendance is a GIP 'cos you can be a perfect dolt and beat some kid who's top of the year but came down with Meningitis for a month (thus being REALLY in line for that prize!!)

I also think there shouldn't be any motivation. I believe in education for all, I really do, but only those who WANT it. Over here in Oxford (sidenote: learning centre of the world) if you want to go to college, and can prove you WANT to go to college, you can! It would produce a LOT better education system.

[Jack B. Badd]

I got fuck all for my leaving cert (apart from the course I wanted) and royally pissed I was. Cheap parents! Over it now though...mostly...grrr

[Lina]

i dont expect my parents to buy me anything for my academic achievements..
some people i know in the year above get money for what grades they get. its stupid i think

[osiris]

my parents said they would give my sister a certain amount of money for each grade - anything below a C would not get her any - it worked tho cause it made her study. Pity they didn't do the same for me...

[Tree]

rents offered no incentives for leaving cert coz i was clearly a lazy bitch. for the junior cert they offered to buy me a moped if i got all a's....

[Jack B. Badd]

my parents said they would give my sister a certain amount of money for each grade - anything below a C would not get her any - it worked tho cause it made her study. Pity they didn't do the same for me...
Too smart for our own good, dammit!

[karilyn]

One of my V. wealthy freind's dad bought her a new yaught (no bull shitting) and some one else got a posh appartment to live litterally down the road from Posh and becks (well where they used to live)

my auld ones were not so generous to me.... nothing