Schools Giving Away Cars And iPads For Perfect Attendance?

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Giving iPads and cars to get kids to attend school when they are supposed to?

Imagine her surprise, then, when Principal Ari Bennett announced that Vanessa would also be getting an $18,000 Chevrolet Sonic, one of two grand prizes awarded in a year-long contest to encourage perfect attendance at Los Angeles Unified schools. Five elementary students also will receive iPads as winners in the district's Attendance Challenge.
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I can see a darkside to this. Someone on purpose makes you miss a day. This would make for cool movie if done right :)
 
positive reinforcement works, even if it's in the form of a contest.

This is nothing new.
 
Not too unusual... if she's your principal:

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So now all the kids with pink-eye, the flu, strep-throat, chicken-pox, etc are going to come to school anyway?

This is pathetic and disgusting. There are very legitimate reasons for a kid to NOT be in school and every situation isn't just some punk little kid fucking off.
 
I had perfect attendance and I didn't get shit expect for some stupid piece of paper.
 
one swell foop said:
When I was going to school, you went to school or you were in deep sh*t.
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This. What is wrong with people these days? This is your tax dollars at work people. And we wonder why CALI is is such deep debt these days. Here is one reason.

Krieger91 said:
I had perfect attendance and I didn't get shit expect for some stupid piece of paper.
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You got a piece of paper.. lucky! Seriously, I didn't get anything.
 
GotNoRice said:
So now all the kids with pink-eye, the flu, strep-throat, chicken-pox, etc are going to come to school anyway?

This is pathetic and disgusting. There are very legitimate reasons for a kid to NOT be in school and every situation isn't just some punk little kid fucking off.
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It is just preparing them for work ... until this year we had PTO accrual (which was combined for vacation and sick days) ... when we had this system it was not advantageous to try and take a sick day since that was one less day of vacation ... better to come in to the office and infect your coworkers or be unproductive working through an illness ... we just need to get kids ready for this :p
 
I had perfect attendance all through elementary, and they gave me Cubs tickets every year. (yeah, Chicago Cubs tickets through the early 80's. Some reward.) I never got anything for perfect attendance through jr high or high school. (My parents never, EVER let me stay home when sick. I was always forced to go to school. They also nearly never brought me to a doctor. I had ear infections all through my childhood, and now I have scar tissue in my ears that has reduced my hearing to about 40% of normal.) I don't get why kids these days are getting such huge rewards for it.
 
I got a perfect attendance certificate in HS. Gooooo me!
 
kbrickley said:
we had PTO accrual (which was combined for vacation and sick days) ... when we had this system it was not advantageous to try and take a sick day since that was one less day of vacation ... better to come in to the office and infect your coworkers or be unproductive working through an illness
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This is the down side of PTO.
It was the same at every company I worked at that had PTO, people always comming in sick & making everyone else sick.
I prefer to stick with seperate vacation and sick leave, and then "getting sick" to use up the sick days before the end of the year ;)
 
I find it curious the article doesn't actually call out if kids can still qualify if they miss a day due to being sick. It would be wildly absurd and totally fucking stupid to encourage kids to come to school when they are sick.

"She emphasized the correlation between good attendance and academic success, but also noted that the district receives an average of $32 for every day a student is in school. That means the district loses out on that money whenever a student is absent."

Surprise surprise.... the school gets more money for better attendance.

"The other car was won by Euri Tanaka from San Pedro High School. District officials said Euri is on vacation and will get his prize when he returns."

Uh... what?? Doesn't that mean he doesn't have perfect attendance? Maybe this is evidence that kids can indeed miss days and still qualify. Tough to say.

DarkStar_WNY said:
From the same people who spent almost $600 million on a single school
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Right from the article...

"District officials said 357 seniors with perfect attendance were eligible for the drawing to win the cars, which like many of the other prizes were donated by Clear Channel Media."
 
the students who want to do well in school, will do so regardless of prizes.
this type of incentive program is merely a marketing exercise for businesses and PR for the school administrators
 
I never missed a single day senior year of HS. On award day, some kid who I KNOW wasn't there on senior skip day won the award. It was only like $200 so I didn't really care.

Had it been a car, heads would have rolled...
 
When I was a kid, the threat of a punch to the head gave us perfect attendance.

Pussies...
 
What an asinine incentive program. Last that I checked, perfect attendance in school neither guarantees academic success nor does it benefit you in the real world. So, the kid who makes fantastic grades, but has to miss school a couple of times gets nothing for his hard work. However, a kid who manages to go to school all year, and potentially make horrible grades, could win a car.

Now, if the school district had decided to give a car to the student with the highest GPA, I would have nothing wrong with that, as long as the tax payers of the county approve of it. We should incentivize success, not mediocrity.
 
4 Years of perfect attendance 'til graduation, what did I get?

A certificate...

*I have to be honest, I didn't even realize I didn't miss any school.*
 
Considering that we bailed GM out with tax dollars anyways, I won't even bother to ask if Chevy gave them a car instead of the school paying for it. Either way, taxpayers got screwed...

I'd rather them just give away old school equipment at the end of the year. I'm sure the school has a cart full of iPad 1's they can give away in preparation for them buying new iPad 5's next semester...
 
If I stayed home from school I was put to work on our farm. I took the easy route and went to school.
 
I never had perfect attendance in school... but hey I actually got better grades and went to a better school than a few who did have perfect attendance. Hurray for never missing a day... because the bottom line is the funding the school gets is tied to how many students are at the school on any given day (not because they really give a rats ass if you're there or not)
 
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