In a classic example of ‘things were different in my day’, the members of the Washington County, Florida School Board recently debated the relative merits of paying students in need of educational assistance to attend remedial classes in order to raise their failing grades.
Funded by a federal program, $390,000 is allocated to help those students at risk of not graduating, conforming to the ‘no child left behind’ mandate of prior decades.
Students will be effectively paid $15 per hour, as well as receive breakfast and lunch and transportation in order to achieve this effort.
The Saturday school program was met by widespread approval by the Washington County School Board and Superintendent until the fact that the students would also be financially compensated was disclosed at a recent meeting.
The effort now has many shaking their collective head, questioning how this giveaway incentive will affect those students who are already putting in the work and graduating, and how this may cause a loss of morale in the student body.
