By Danny Tyree
Should students be bribed into attending classes?
by Danny Tyree
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February 1, 2024
Are truancy officers about to get help in fighting absenteeism?
According to the New York Post, the Ohio legislature is considering a bipartisan pilot program that would make cash transfers to select kindergarten and ninth-grade students if they show up a whopping 90 percent of the time.
(One of my friends remarked that the $1.5 million project is called a pilot program because it makes as much sense as a beagle flying a WW I Sopwith Camel. But I digress.)
Schools have exhausted other methods of motivating students (year-round dunking machines showed promise, but principals balked when hydr...
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