Mistacres Blog

Part 1

Have you heard the latest key to learning that schools are coming up with?  Schools across the country have decided to pay students for good grades, high test scores, attendance, and so on.   According to a recent poll taken by CBS, 56% called it a bad thing and 37% said it was good.

I stand with the 56% who see this as not a good thing.  As a taxpayer, I wonder when the tax revenue allocated to education will ever have the right priorities.  I watch taxes and school budgets go up while staffing is cut, class sizes grow and scores drop in the public schools. At Mistacres School, a virtual learning academy for K-8 grades, there are no staff cutbacks or problems with class sizes. And yet, without receiving tax revenues to operate, the school delivers a higher quality education at a fraction of the per student cost of the public schools.