Michigan To Pay Detroit Students For Good Grades

Detroit schools are busted. They are a huge disaster, but paying kids to receive good grades is not the answer. The answer is the voucher system. Let the kids go to a private school and it will force the public schools to quit wasting money on lavish items and actually worry about the kids.

Why should my tax dollars go to pay a kid in Detroit when my kid will get nothing, when he starts school? Why is Detroit so special? If Detroit wants to pay its kids, that is fine, but I am against the State of Michigan paying them.

Detroit high school students could earn up to $2,000 a year for passing major subjects under a bill that is to be introduced in Lansing today.

It is one of three bills from Sen. Hansen Clarke, D-Detroit, that would reorganize about 30 failing high schools in Detroit Public Schools and offer extra pay to teachers and students for improvements.

Paying teachers is fine but parents in Detroit need to start paying attention to their kids.

One bill would demand sweeping reorganization, including maximum class sizes of 16 students, character education classes, mentors and individualized learning plans for each student in DPS's high schools that failed to make adequate yearly progress the past five years

This bill needs to pass. This is something that would actually help Detroit.

Detroit's biggest problem is parents need to help their kids. You can not just throw them in school and demand the teachers to do everything. Kids are a reflection on their parents. If the parents don't care, the kids wont.