Comments on: Pay for popularity http://joannejacobs.com/2007/01/30/pay-for-popularity/ Free-linking and thinking on education by Joanne Jacobs Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:37:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: allen http://joannejacobs.com/2007/01/30/pay-for-popularity/#comment-38778 allen Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:04:09 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2007/01/30/pay-for-popularity/#comment-38778 Yeah, but kids walking through the door of the school isn't what the public is paying for. This scheme only motivates the principal to attract kids not to educate them. Yeah, but kids walking through the door of the school isn’t what the public is paying for. This scheme only motivates the principal to attract kids not to educate them.

]]> By: Doug Sundseth http://joannejacobs.com/2007/01/30/pay-for-popularity/#comment-38762 Doug Sundseth Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:13:23 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2007/01/30/pay-for-popularity/#comment-38762 Paying more to schools that actually pay attention to their customers enough to get more of them seems like a good thing to me. (I say this as the parent of a charter-school student in the Denver metro area, though not in the city.) That the same money isn't available to charter schools, though, seems problematic. Why is one class of public schools more deserving of fiscal support than the other? (I mean besides the union thing.) Paying more to schools that actually pay attention to their customers enough to get more of them seems like a good thing to me. (I say this as the parent of a charter-school student in the Denver metro area, though not in the city.)

That the same money isn’t available to charter schools, though, seems problematic. Why is one class of public schools more deserving of fiscal support than the other? (I mean besides the union thing.)

]]> By: allen http://joannejacobs.com/2007/01/30/pay-for-popularity/#comment-38755 allen Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:51:38 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2007/01/30/pay-for-popularity/#comment-38755 I predict that a new word will soon enter the lexicon next to "Shanghaiing". Denvering. I predict that a new word will soon enter the lexicon next to “Shanghaiing”.

Denvering.

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