What is Digg?Sponsored by Travelzoo
Take Advantage of Ridiculously Low Holiday Airfares view!
travelzoo.com - Flights $52 and up for Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year. But move on it now.
118 Comments
- notoneofus, on 06/17/2008, -1/+40We're no longer on a gold standard.
- ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -4/+33What happened to being proud of receiving a gold star?
- damntourists, on 06/17/2008, -3/+29 god dammit, why wasn't this happening when I was in gradeschool/highschool.
- Mohdoo, on 06/17/2008, -1/+21Student unions of Geometry class?
- Ymeg, on 06/17/2008, -1/+21this is insane.
- sherbertbones, on 06/17/2008, -0/+17It's not real money, but more than I ever got.
Me: "I got straight A's"
Parents: "You don't have to mow the lawn today!" - acid0426, on 06/17/2008, -3/+20Gettin A's gettin paid. Tis the life of a true school thug.
- insanebrain, on 06/17/2008, -3/+18School is for your own good, so why should somebody pay you to educate yourself ?
- Haoie, on 06/17/2008, -1/+14Back in my day sonny boy, we paid schools to teach us.
Not to mention walking 10 miles in the snow to get to class. - chadell, on 06/17/2008, -0/+13In the UK students studying advanced level courses at high school are given a weekly allowance.
- crazyjake, on 06/17/2008, -4/+17Ron Paul wants to bring us back to the gold star standard!
/Revolution! - AberDave85, on 06/17/2008, -0/+10Not strictly true, you have to come from a deprived area or you dont get any incentives.
- inactive, on 06/17/2008, -0/+9The sad reality is, the core issue starts at home. Until the school system places the burden back on to the parents, people will continue to take education for granted.
- Saiyanz, on 06/17/2008, -0/+9I got a beating if I didn't make A's or B's
- RNEMESiS42, on 06/17/2008, -1/+9...I'm pretty sure kids are just going to buy weed with this money, or find seniors that know guys that can buy them booze. That's pretty much what I did with my money from age 15-17. Pretty bad, eh?
- Berkana, on 06/17/2008, -0/+8In an Asian household, your payment for getting good grades is not getting beaten (or at least sent to after-school prep school). Looks like it works too.
- trunks333, on 06/17/2008, -1/+9Liberal Art majors don't count
- AndrewDB, on 06/17/2008, -0/+7Psh. We didn't get Gold Stars in middle school, consider yourself lucky.
We got a really ***** grading system..B, for bad, G for good, and VG for Very good.
On those rare occasions you really impressed the teacher you'd get a VG+.
I'm not kidding you. - Dundasbro, on 06/17/2008, -1/+7Mario graduated years ago, nobody else is interested.
- Khanvalescent, on 06/17/2008, -1/+7Abandon the carrot and go back to the stick.
- Firehed, on 06/17/2008, -0/+5And that's why he can't buy a new iPhone.
- ultrafez, on 06/17/2008, -0/+5There are three tiers of EMA (educational maintenance allowance) based on your household income:
< £20,000 a year, you get £30 a week;
£20,000 - £25,000 you get £20 a week;
£25,000 - £30,000 you get £10 a week;
> £30,000 you get nothing.
But you have to turn up to ALL of your lessons otherwise you don't get your money for the week. - inactive, on 06/17/2008, -1/+6Wow dude you are a ***** rockstar!!!!
I can tell that investment paid off in dividends of critical thinking... now go somewhere and act privileged. (other than the internet) - shig, on 06/17/2008, -1/+6Gold stars are dead, and we have killed them. What are those graded papers but the tombs and sepulchers of dead symbols of excellence?
We're materialists now. Cash and field trips are the new currency of achievement. Oh, and it's fake, like the real economy. So, they can adjust much better. - davehanc, on 06/17/2008, -0/+4isn't it a household income of < 18K or something?
- euro22, on 12/17/2008, -1/+5Uphill both ways... carrying my sick sister in my arms.
- JordanE, on 06/17/2008, -0/+4If you don't want a good education then leave and make something of your life.
- positron, on 06/17/2008, -0/+4What, no ++G?
- novask, on 06/17/2008, -0/+4They need more Debra Lafave's in school. Hell, I would go back to school (despite the fact that I graduated several years ago).
- inactive, on 06/17/2008, -0/+4a better incentive would be to allow schools to kick out failing students. Let them make Big Macs for a few years, then they might be more motivated.
- flip2trip, on 06/17/2008, -1/+5You sure you're done? High school is two words junior.
- zombird, on 06/17/2008, -1/+5Seems like it'd just be more incentive for students to cheat.
- Phoenix478, on 06/17/2008, -0/+4This is almost as good an idea as taking dodgeball out of schools because it teaches them to be competitive (which is.... bad?) or eliminating failing grades because it hurts their self esteem! The kids going through our education system now are ***** when they get out into the real world and no one is there to tell them their ***** doesn't stink. We're raising a generation of children that aren't given the tools to deal with anything even slightly negative because parents are so afraid of being the bad guys that they aren't doing their jobs and the people running the schools have lost their goddamn minds. It's no wonder kids have become such spoiled, self indulgent little pricks who think they should just be handed everything.
- trevis989, on 06/17/2008, -0/+4This cannot end well. The students shouldn't be given money to do well. Praise and small rewards? of course, but not the 250-500 bucks some of those kids are quoted as "banking." If anything teachers should be given the incentives. If your class is collectively doing well, give the teacher a reward and maybe something to pass down to their students as they see fit (class parties, class pet of some sort, maybe a little nookie to the star student (kidding of course)). As someone said before, if you start giving the incentives to specific students doing well, what happens when the program is changed/dropped? The incentive is gone (though in a perfect world kids would appreciate their education no matter what)
- noahgelman, on 06/17/2008, -1/+5I think that was his point
- davehanc, on 06/17/2008, -0/+4We do this in the UK, but with real money. It's a decent enough idea, but kids just end up spending it on beer and cigarettes. Which isn't really the point.
- tonyDigger, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3OK it was the point and was a Joke.. Please Laugh now.
- benguild, on 06/17/2008, -2/+5LOL. No. You will probably go spend the money on drugs and got get highhhhhhhhhh broooooooooo...
Okay, so maybe YOU won't, but I don't buy the whole 'oh yes sir, we will do alllll our schoolwork if you pay us!' *****. Paying you to go to school is just wrong. ***** your 'more time to concentrate on school' argument, because you and I both know that is a load of *****. You needa harden the ***** up and do both. Millions of other people before you did it. What makes all the kids nowadays so special they get all these new policies and special rules and exceptions? Seriously. I think most of us are extremely ungrateful for what we have. - laughandsing, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3tehee ha ha ho ho ;)
- mal1964, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3The Carrot and stick works everywhere, But what to use is different everywhere..
- ferrariman60, on 06/17/2008, -4/+7No *****. What was wrong with those times? Paying kids to go to school is just wrong. How about paying them by giving them an education? Seems fair to me.
- mustang460, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3b/c kids don't care about that, once you grow up and realize what an amazing opportunity school was, its too late
most kids have no motivation, we need to motivate kids with rewards they desire, and hopefully this will cause more to overcome the negative peer pressure that sucks in far to many youths
our education system is failing and i hope new ideas such as this may help - inactive, on 06/17/2008, -1/+4Used to be that your reward for good grades was avoiding a beating when your report card came home.
- nedy78, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3Interesting idea, but this will create a upper, middle and lower class which could prove disastrous for the school system, especially when the the student government starts taxing them.
- iamdak, on 06/17/2008, -1/+4Next: Strikes on division.
- Noods, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2We as a society pay big to give children an opportunity to receive a good education. It is a damn shame children don't see the value in learning and it is a damn shame parents don't care enough to inspire them to learn.
- dogbyte_13, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2Yet another way to spoil children.
- letherial, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2why dont we do something a little more productive, like maybe work on the teachers being a little more entertaining? less annoying, when i was young i had english teachers that just made me sit there and read books i often sluffed those classes, then i had history a teacher that would stand up and tell storys of what happened at one point i loved his class. There are good teachers, who understand that you cant keep kids, who naturally want to play, still unless you entertain them, then there are teachers who just dont care and are very lazy and often very rude.
lets reward the teachers for doing a good job, encourage them to be a bit more creative in there teaching, instead of bribing students who are getting the wrong message about what it means and why you should learn. My god, and my son has to go through this education system, sad... - cmost, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2This is possibly the most ridiculous, misguided effort I've ever encountered. One should think not wanting to go through life as a dumbass should be incentive enough to do well in school. On the other hand, with parents coddling their children and pandering to their every whim, there's a bigger incentive to not give a *****. No wonder "kids" are living at home until they're well into their 30s. I'm thankful every day that my parents were the sort that jumped all over my ass if I made anything less than As or Bs in school. Apparently those type of parents have gone the way of the dinosaur.
- AllLitUp, on 06/17/2008, -1/+3Why not? Its a lot more like real life, work hard/get nothing vs. work hard/get rewarded, gives them a better sense of reality IMO.
-
Show 51 - 100 of 121 discussions
The Digg Toolbar for Firefox lets you Digg, submit content, and keep track of Digg even when you're not on the Digg site. Download the official 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is