Want to get paid to study for the SATs?
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- February
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White Plains Councilman Glen Hockley is trying to start an SAT camp for “at risk” students — and he wants to pay the kids to attend! He got the idea from Greenburgh councilwoman Sonja Brown, who is trying to do the same thing there. The two will hold a meeting to discuss the idea at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Thomas H. Slater Center, 2 Fischer Ct, White Plains.
Paying students to learn isn’t new. I remember when I was a student and I first heard Newt Gingrich talking about paying kids to do well in school — I thought it was the most brilliant idea ever! And NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is into the idea, too.
OK, bribing students isn’t necessarily the most idealic solution. But it is a realistic one. I mean, life is all about incentives, no?
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on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 at 7:00 am by Diana Costello.
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I think it sends out the wrong message. If I can get money attending summer camp because I get bad SAT scores, why should I work hard studying it at school?
Ah, good point, SylviaZ. I didn’t think of it that way. Sounds like you’d do well on the LSAT!