CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS APPEAR IN D.C.

Now that Klein-Bloomberg have brought conditional cash transfers to NYC, Chancellor Michelle Rhee has set them up in D.C. Capital students will now be paid $100 monthly for good test scores and behavior. Money will be doled out to students who perform such amazing feats as showing up in class each day, arriving at school on time or sitting still during class. Hey; isn’t this what normal average students who supposed to do anyway? Will we soon pay students to each lunch, play in the school-yard, brush their teeth or practice personal hygiene?

Rhee defended the monetary give-away as merely giving inner city students the same equal opportunities as their suburban counterparts. “Kids in richer communities who achieve high grades are rewarded with cars, trips and money.” Gee; most families I have seen over the years just expect their children to attend school daily and perform well. Here in NYC the cash for grades programs have not exactly proved to be a rousing success. When our high school students were paid last year to take advanced placement exams , the failure rate actually increased.

Rhee will now attempt to emulate our failures in D.C.