High Finance 101: Buy your way through school
November 11, 2009
I actually thought this was a joke. But it isn’t.
Leave it to the public school system to corrupt and destroy yet another principle of education — earned grades.
A $20 donation to Rosewood Middle School will get a student 20 test points – 10 extra points on two tests of the student’s choosing. That could raise a B to an A, or a failing grade to a D.
This is beyond the ‘slippery slope’ position — this is fraud plain and simple. Forget that the school has lost all it’s credibility, all of it’s integrity and has completely lost any semblance of intelligent thinking: This shows that the public school collective has lost its fucking mind altogether.
Today’s kids are taught that “self esteem” is more important than actual accomplishments thus the refusal of schools to keep score at athletic events and to implement the “no-test” academic environment. These poor kids eventually end up in the ‘real world’ and realize that society doesn’t work that way. Nobody cares how hard they work — only the quality and quantity of the work performed. In the real world, people DO keep score, and some people lose. That’s the way it works.
Now this particular school has taken it to a higher level, albeit arguably closer to how the real world works (unfortunately). They are teaching kids that if you can’t actually earn the grade — you can buy it! Money unlocks all sorts of opportunities, including passing algebra.
These particular kids will enter the ‘real world’ was the finely honed skill of the graft. Can’t get into your college of choice? Grease the wheels a bit with a few a couple grand to the Dean of Admissions. Can’t seem to get that job you want? Slip a couple hundred bucks to the head of human resources. Welcome to the real world, alumni of Rosewood Middle School Milkers
High School Diploma “grease” $500
College Degree “payola” $1,500
Job Interview “envelope” $2,000
Loss of all integrity and ethics: Priceless
And for everything else, there’s MasterGraft.
notamobster :
Date: November 11, 2009
How about the Atlanta High School thats paying kids to attend school:
http://www.heartland.org/publications/school%20reform/article/22975/Atlanta_Experiments_with_Student_Pay_Too.html
BaconNeggs :
Date: November 11, 2009
The Principal says that last year they made nothing from students selling chocolates so with digital cameras and a “high-tech” Blackboard on her shopping list, whats a Principal to do to raise funds.
She sounds morally empty and perfect material for the Public school system.
I have had similar BS from schools over the years, for all kinds of simple things students want but dont need. These School Administrators are provided a huge budget from our taxes, yet blow it and they start squeezing the students to squeeze their parents for cash.
That high-tech Blackboard must be some very special singing and dancing Blackboard.
James :
Date: November 11, 2009
The whole flawed public school problem with texbook choice, curiculum, low grades, no teacher incentive, socialist indoctrination, discipline, costly sports stadiums, is structural.
It simply doesn’t work to take funds by force from one group of people via taxes and distribute services freely to others.
Since the people receiving the “education” do not control the money directly, they cannot refuse payment for poor service or high cost. This lack of constraint allows the public school system to do whatever or hire whoever they please.
Those who want better, must pay twice: once for the sub-par public schools, and again for private schooling of their choice.
shawn :
Date: November 12, 2009
This is why we homeschool. Public schools really are a means of indoctrinating socialists:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/index.htm
Human beings don’t value anything that comes free, so it becomes abused and disparaged. This simple principle is going to be the downfall of the health bill, God forbid, if it passes.