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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 270856" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>Gosh!</p><p></p><p>This just seems to feed into "entitlement syndrome".</p><p></p><p>Why should the kids work hard at regular classes, if they can get paid to go to summer school? And why should the good students work hard, when they can fail too and get paid to go to summer school? And why go to school at all, unless someone's paying me to go? And it all just spirals downhill from there...</p><p></p><p>Jo, your question is an interesting one...</p><p>The high school I used to go to has a huge alumni fundraising machine, and as a result is very well equipped. Meanwhile, lots of the local public schools are falling to wrack and ruin. The way the regulations work around here, it's very difficult to donate large sums to the public school system. And if such donations get through the red tape, there's no guarantee that the funds will actually be used for the intended purposes (textbooks, playground equipment or whatever). In some cases, such donations have been funnelled into school trustee slush funds, which have then been spent on "research trips" to the carribbean and the like.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure how things work in your area with regard to regulations about donations to publich schools, but sometimes the system just makes it too hard. I know that if I had a few spare millions lying around to donate to schools, I'd be sorely tempted to open my own private school rather than throwing the money into the pit with the rest of the mismanaged public funding...</p><p></p><p>Trinity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 270856, member: 3907"] Gosh! This just seems to feed into "entitlement syndrome". Why should the kids work hard at regular classes, if they can get paid to go to summer school? And why should the good students work hard, when they can fail too and get paid to go to summer school? And why go to school at all, unless someone's paying me to go? And it all just spirals downhill from there... Jo, your question is an interesting one... The high school I used to go to has a huge alumni fundraising machine, and as a result is very well equipped. Meanwhile, lots of the local public schools are falling to wrack and ruin. The way the regulations work around here, it's very difficult to donate large sums to the public school system. And if such donations get through the red tape, there's no guarantee that the funds will actually be used for the intended purposes (textbooks, playground equipment or whatever). In some cases, such donations have been funnelled into school trustee slush funds, which have then been spent on "research trips" to the carribbean and the like. I'm not sure how things work in your area with regard to regulations about donations to publich schools, but sometimes the system just makes it too hard. I know that if I had a few spare millions lying around to donate to schools, I'd be sorely tempted to open my own private school rather than throwing the money into the pit with the rest of the mismanaged public funding... Trinity [/QUOTE]
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