Hi, just for background: Im a 20year old German-American raised in Germany. I have a lot of family in Detroit and visit them frequently and have worked to summers as camp Counselor in the Homes for the Homeless programm in New York, so dispite my remoteness I have a oppinion.

I was a lousy student, not clever, not stupid, just plain lazy because to me it did not make sense to try hard. When my older brother failed, my parents were beginning to pay him for good grades, and i ofcourse wanted the same. 5 years later my brother finished as one of the best in his class and now has won a couple of prices at university and is currently writing his master.

I graduated last year. I really never gave a **** about school, but my grades were always good, because i wanted that paper. I now as a “grown up” know educations value, and why I while continue university. However from the 3rd grade until graduation I only studied for the money. The only times I really wanted good grades were when teachers annoyed me. Then id usually write a really good exam, shove it in there face and get more trouble the for a bad grade – great –

However my point is: Do it if it works. Your education system as it is, is underperforming by unknown magnitudes (Ours is too, probably worse), so why hinder possible ideas with ideological bla bla that the students should be happy to be able to go to school and so on… because thats not going to help. And help is what is needed!

yeah why not it might keep crime down

I do understand what the brother is trying to do and he should be commended, but on the other hand I don’t like the idea of paying someone to learn. I think this will give the kids the misconception that you should get paid for doing the right thing. That’s just like saying you should get paid for not going to prison by a certain age, which in actuality your not suppose to go to prison anyway. I think that concepts applies to this situation. Telling the children that I will pay you $500 if you do well on this test is not allowing the child to understand what learning is truly all about. Going to school and getting an education is not to only gain financial success, it is there to self improve and make you aware of the world. I don’t think anything good would come from this….

This is ridiculous!!! Then America wonders why Japan and other foreign countries are so ahead of us educational wise. Paying kids to do well in school is the most ridiculous notion I have ever heard. The problem with today’s youth is that everything already comes too easy for them. They don’t have to work for anything. These kids walk around with $80 iPods and every technical gadget you can think of, but can’t sit in a classroom for a solid hour and focus. As a child and teenager your only job is to go to school, that is your only job, and you mean to tell me that these kids and PARENTS have gotten so lazy that a child should be rewarded for going to school. Let’s not forget what all of the African-Americans had to endure just to have an equal and quality education. The problem with these kids is that they are getting in their minds that there is this quick and easy way to success, and that is a true misconception. Success comes with educating yourself and laboring hard, hard work!! Paying a child to do well on a test is only enabling them, and with this attitude they will not succeed in college because they will learn to do well on test only if a reward is involved, if it’s not involved they will not try as hard. These kids have got to learn that you do not get rewarded for simply doing what’s right or expected of you!

You have got to be kidding me!!! Pay studentd to go to school? After all what Dr. King did for us and don;t to mention the black people that pave the way for wanting a education and got spit on, called vulgar names, and beat up for trying to get a education? Now we want to pay students to go to school. Parents, you need to wake up and talk to your children about black history and their heritage. Becasue education starts at home.

This is just utterly absurd. That is such a stupid idea. I’m 17 years old and about to be a senior in high school in September 2008. I don’t need to be paid to go to school when I’m getting the education free. That would just cause tax payers to pay more money for ignorant children who will probably play around in school regardless. There used to be a time when children, especially black children, were overjoyed to go to school because the opportunity was not always afforded to them. We need to stop taking simple little pleasures for granted. These children don’t need to be motivated with money to be able to take school seriously. They need to have their butts whooped like their parents did and be made to go to school and made to learn…and if they still don’t take it seriously, they should be sent to the homes. It’s ridiculous that our children are getting so pitiful that they need to be bribed to take they’re careers as a student seriously. Our country is going straight to the dogs when we get older. God help us all.

I was paid by my parent for doing well in school. Of course A’s were the rewarded grade. Maybe a few B’s received a lesser monetary reward, but nothing for C’s or lower! Never were bad grades or behavior rewarded with fun stuff…they always rendered me a lesson teaching punishment, i.e. no phone, no handing out with friends, etc. Of course my parents talked about the value and importance of education – one of them was an educator, but maybe they saw a need to address it another way also. The point was that sometimes when you’re young and distracted by all the other things in the world you don’t necessarily see nor understand the value in obtaining your education, so it was an incentive and as I grew older and discovered the value of education and the great feeling of reward; not just the dollar attached to my A’s, but the feeling of “smart accomplishments” from doing well at my school work I began to actually ENJOY learning and grew to respect my education. So, I guess I can agree with the “paying the students to learn” just as long as its balanced and the students get the point.

I really think this is a good ideal. Like Dr. Fryer stated: The upper class children get rewarded when they do good in school. Unfornately most inner city children parents are struggling to support them so how can they really offer a reward. I really think there should be a financial guideline to offer the pay for performance. And please do not be too strick with the guideline because the struggling working middle class children always get stuck without. I know, because my brothers and I grew up with a single mother that worked hard and not get welfare

we were not eigible for any programs or resources assistance. We struggling hard, which I don’t want to see our future children stuck on stupid. The way we running the world MONEY is the key to anything first. Without it you’re nobody.

I personally think the whole monetary reward that would be rewarded to the students who pass the standardize test is a great way of helping these students to construct their focus in life.

In todays society we live in, money is the bottom line for everything we do, it shouldn’t be like that but that’s reality. So basically, this ideology ( The monetary reward ) would not only aid the students to go to school and get education but it would also help them to stay focus on everything they choose to do in life. Let give it a chance.

So if i were you ( the sponsors) i would not fret too much about what the critic’s perception are

See this is sofa king absurd. To get paid to get an education to get paid when you get out is dumb. This is just another way to make young black teens look un-educated and stupid. Baltimore city is one of the most un-educated cities in america, and now they made the “E” a passing grade and initiated the “F”. If students dont want to pass and get a real job instead of selling crack to kids then put them out of school asap. Paying students to pass can lead to worse problems such as robbery and gambling inside the schools. I am a black teen starting college and to pay a student thats in high school to pass is jus …absurd

yeah now thats sounds good to me

I would first like to start off by saying that I thought the documentry on CNN was remarkable! That documentry really did take veiwers into the African American struggles faced daily in the education system! I am a educator and i have to disagree with the whole idea of paying children to excel in school! I believe that parents should begin to encourage, in get there children in the mind set of exceling in school! Money has no value when it comes to a childs education! The greater reward for the child is earning good grades and a top knotch education! Also, why does the incentive have to be money? why cant it be shares in a company?

as a yung kid in school i would want to get paid to go cause i dont like school but should us students get paid? NO!!!!!!

How about a savings account for private school or college as payment?

I really don’t believe in paying children to do what they are supposed to be doing anyway.

Whatever happened to “’cause I said so?” No t.v, no cell phone, text messaging crap! Kids have too many distrations now that’s why they can’t concentrate in school. I have a friend whose son was an expert at Playstation games before he went to kindergarten, guess what, He Failed Kindergarten! Where are the parents priorities?

Children should not be paid to go to school; did the Arkansas Nine get paid?
Well then, Lets keep it real. Take that same money and invest it into sought after teachers and in turn with what the professionals plant within the minds of these children, the world will reap the benefits of this harvest.
Nuff Said.

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