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• It pays to attend... - Dec. 6, 2006

I read an interesting article on CNN.com about how educators in public schools are starting to have incentives for students showing up. One student won a truck for her near-perfect attendance.

Public schools commonly reward excellent attendance with movie tickets, gas vouchers and iPods. But some diligent students like Kaytie are now hitting the ultimate teenage jackpot for going to school: They have won cars or trucks.

School districts in Hartford, Connecticut; Pueblo, Colorado; South Lake Tahoe, California; and Wickenburg and Yuma, Arizona, are also giving away vehicles this school year.



 Why such big gifts?

Districts have a lot to gain and little to lose by holding car drawings. The vehicles are usually free. And in Wyoming, even a one-student increase in average daily enrollment means another $12,000 in state funding for the year.



Makes me wish I was back in highschool.

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Dec. 9, 2006 - wow

Posted by cheekymonkey
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