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The administration had to offer money and free periods in order to get other children to show up.

crap...and I thought my country had the worst students.......

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Originally Posted by Sentient Virus

We recently took the HSGQE. The administration had to offer money and free periods in order to get other children to show up.

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Originally Posted by -Ghost-

Yeah, they're doing the same here for S.T.A.R.S testing, they're offering all sorts or incentives to make kids show up. If 95% of the school shows up for a testing, next week's Friday is a minimum day for students and teachers (Teachers were adamant about us coming in that case), and there are pizza parties offered for the top 10 classes with the highest attendence. It's pretty bad that some kids even need bribes to show up for a state test. Our school is new, so this test will determine whether we are a high mark school or a low mark school. It sucks to put something that can influence what college I get into into the hands of irresponsible kids.

http://forums.filefront.com/images/smilies/eekx.gif :uhm: WTF?! something is serious messed up, bribe kids so they come to school? thats just... sad, very sad. And i thought we were screwed over here, but that? *sigh* No way a school should ever bribe their students to come to school...

Track them down and drag them back to school by their hairs and have talks with the parents and tell them "less they seriously want to screw up the lives of their children they must sent their kids during classes, besides the parents are wasting money for paying school bills their kids to no attent".

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This just goes along with kids that really have no aptitutde in school, and don't care. I'd show up for the testing even if there weren't bribes invloved (although I'd expect a halfday still, 4 hours of testing each day for 4 days is a lot).

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Kid taking bribes to come to school...one example of the corruption in the world.....if this spread across the world........

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It already has, politics anyone? I've got to go to school in a few minutes, so I bet I'll get to see the like 300 (out of over a thousand I think) people that showed up for testing today.

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I think a few places here offer financial aid to students taking on further education, but only for 6th form/college, which of course I never got, certainly not high school. They should be working on ways to get kids to stay in school of their own volition, though the chances of that ever happening are so unbelievably small that you're more likely to get a badger to stand still. Even so, bribing them to come is better than them not coming at all...

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Yeah, I was in another school district for a swim meet and I saw a little poster on the wall that offered kids 5 grade points on their semester grade if the passed the TAKS test (Texas Assesment of Knowledge Skills). This is really sad, because if you don't pass the exam, that pretty much qualifies you as a certified dumbass. (For example, one of the 'harder' questions is "During World War II, Germany, Japan, and Itally made up the ______ powers. Its multiple choice, too.)

I also heard that the same distric is thinking about passing a law (or whatever you call it when it affects a school... you know what I mean) that says if you take an AP exam and score a three or higher, you get $300. I wish our school district would do that, because I could have an extra $600 right now, and another $900 by the end of the year... :cort:

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Wow, I wish we had a law like that. Is it out of a total of 6 or 7? We just had our first day of STAR testing, suprisingly a lot of people showed up, tommorow will probably be a diffrent story though. Who knows what you call something that affects schools, an ordinance, a law? It shows how much education has slipped when we have to be bribed to show up for school.

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we have star testing next week

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Originally Posted by Großadmiral Dönitz

:uhm: WTF?! something is serious messed up, bribe kids so they come to school? thats just... sad, very sad. And i thought we were screwed over here, but that? *sigh* No way a school should ever bribe their students to come to school...

That is pretty messed up. Going to school should be a common thing, not a rewarded thing.

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Originally Posted by Großadmiral Dönitz

Track them down and drag them back to school by their hairs and have talks with the parents and tell them "less they seriously want to screw up the lives of their children they must sent their kids during classes, besides the parents are wasting money for paying school bills their kids to no attent".

Seriously. Amen right there.