Conn. Students To Get Cash For Passing AP Tests

Students who pass Advanced Placement tests at Wilby High School in Waterbury will be getting hard cold cash rewards.

The students who pass their final AP tests next year will earn $100 for themselves for every test they pass.

The cash rewards are part of a new program to expand student participation in Wilby's Advanced Placement program. It is funded by a $451,113, grant from the National Math and Science Initiative.

Is this what we're reduced to as a nation?  Kids getting paid to pass tests?  How's this:  Pass the test or get punished for not studying hard enough.  Parents and teachers resorting to bribery aren't doing the kids any favors.  All they are doing is showing them that being smart and getting ahead in life is supposed to be rewarded immediately, rather than allowing them to get them to see about long term thinking and planning.

For example, when I get a report on my desk, someone might get a "good job", and that's it.  I know who's a hard worker in my office and who isn't.  When I see someone who's busting their ass to make our company run smoothly, I make a mental note for when reward time does come.  If someone wants a raise every time that they do something right, all they're going to do is piss me off and they'll only learn to be bitter when they don't get what they want each and every time they do a good job.

Sometimes, kids will fail and fall through the cracks.  These are the people who are working the register at McDonalds at age 30 and still living in a shitty apartment.  You get the lifestyle you're willing to work for.

 

Travis

travis@rightwinglunatic.com