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Whatever happened to "Do your homework or get your hide tanned"?

My how things have changed! When I failed to do my homework I had to run 6 laps around our school's 1/2 mile track and walk home because I missed the bus! Once was enough for me,from then on I had my work done on time.

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My parents never really stayed on me about my homework. When that report card showed up, Dad had a system of accountability for us. Every point we went down in a subject was 1 weeks suspension of privileges. Every point we went up in a subject would mitigate that sentence by 1/2 a week.

I learned math and fractions really quick.

I give my kids money for good report cards. I want them to know hard work pays off. I also want them to feel that school is their number one "job" right now. The better they do the more they get. I don't see a problem with it. But they're still little, 2nd & 3rd grade, so they do really well in school and haven't encountered really hard work yet. My son has more trouble keeping his behavior grades up.

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I could agree with that as long as it is balanced by significant penalties for poor performance.

Oh it is. My son once lost his weekend game cube rights for an entire report card period because his teacher wrote on his report card that he can be disrespectful at times particularly when he feels he's "right" about something. (wonder where he gets that? ) Anyway the next report card finally came and the teacher's comments were much better. He finally got his game cube back and now understands that it's gonna cost him if he decides to mouth off. I haven't really faced a situation where they are having trouble with a subject yet since they're so young. If that happens though I think I'd hire a tutor before I went the punishment route. It's one thing if they're slacking off and being lazy but if they're just having trouble getting it that's completely different, right?

As far as this program goes though it might be a good thing. There are kids who come from families who don't seem to give a crap if they do well in school or not. If these are the kids that are being targeted with this program it could very well be inspirational for them to have any "work" on their part recognized. I've been around school long enough to know that "home life" can really make or break a kid. I once had a kid, a first grader, that I was tutoring in reading. I asked him if he was being read to at home. He said his parents didn't have time. I asked him if he was reading on his own. He said he didn't have books. Geez Louise. I told him he could go to the library and check out lots of books. He said no one will take him to the library. Meanwhile he wasn't allowed to check out books from the school library because he had lost one in the beginning of the year and it hadn't been paid for yet. What a nightmare. Anyway I brought him a box of books my kids were done with and we also worked out a situation where he could help the librarian during recess for a week to "work off" his lost book so his library privileges could be reinstated. Anyway the point is there are kids out there who have parents that are really falling down on the job for whatever reason and anything we can do to help them gets a thumbs up from me.

First, this program is as dumb as a stump...

But the key words I saw in this article is "privately funded"...

If this was taxpayer expensed, I think the outrage and backlash would be tremendous...

But it's not, so the problem really is "Why would they try this nomatter how it was funded?"...

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