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RSS McKnight

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Why is this even controversial? We all know that people react better to incentives than to coercion. As it stands, it's up to parents to provide incentives for their kids to do well in school.

A promise of a good future is not much of an incentive. Most kids are short-sighted, see no point in doing something just because the grown-ups say so, and want real fulfillment immediately, not "someday". If you're wondering why kids half-ass assignments, sleep or talk during class, pick on other kids, and eventually drop out of school altogether, with no form of punishment having any real effect, well, why do you think communism failed as an economic system? Kids get shuffled around to go here or go there or do this or do that, most legitimate forms of stress relief are banned from schools (which is what leads to bullying as one of the few options left), everything they can do is on the terms of people much older than they are, and real growth and learning is limited. If a governments wants its kids to go out of their way to sit around, listen to adults drone on about random stuff, and then go home and read and answer questions about stuff that they don't give two fucks about, then giving them real, short-term rewards is the least it can do.

College is different because people choose to attend that. No one (at least under a certain age) chooses to attend school before that, and laws requiring them to attend is not how society can hope to get the most out of its education system possible.

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