Idea: Pay Students to go to school.

[amadeus]

If they want money, let them work a part-time job. That would give them real-world sills and experience schools can't give.

 

[Tahuti]

If they want money, let them work a part-time job. That would give them real-world sills and experience schools can't give.

Now we are talking. Unfortunately, most jobs ask for degrees nowadays, though may mark a return towards independent contractors and artisans.

 

[amadeus]

Now we are talking. Unfortunately, most jobs ask for degrees nowadays, though may mark a return towards independent contractors and artisans.

I'm not talking about them getting careers.

The kinds of jobs I was thinking of couldn't possibly require a degree.

 

[Hygro]

I'm not talking about them getting careers.

The kinds of jobs I was thinking of couldn't possibly require a degree.

Hence why our level of unemployment is not an issue of people not being trained enough.

 

[amadeus]

Sorry, I don't follow.

 

[Thedrin]

I have a high school son. It is MY job to provide proper encouragement for him, not the government.

Motivating student to do well in school is the responsibility of parents not the government.

I was motivated to do well in school by my parents. Were I to have kids, I would motivate them as well. I find myself to be offended by the negligence of parents who don't try to motivate their kids to do well at school (although I have some sympathy for those who don't know how to).

Many parents do not motivate their kids to do well. Finding ways to motivate such children is not an attack on the parenting skills of those who are motivating their kids to do well at school. A case of bad apples spoiling everything for everyone else.

Understand that I'm not approaching this issue from within the restrictions of the US constitution, which I am not subject to. I do not claim to know if it's possible for government to enact any program that would motivate kids to do better at school through financial incentives (though the results from the school in Dallas in the article that Mise posted is interesting), but were it to be shown that there was a program that would improve the education of children with negligent parents to a reasonable degree, relative to the cost, I would suggest that the statement, "it's not constitutional" is far less constructive than the statement, "how do we change the constitution so that this is constitutional?".

 

[LamaGT]

Perhaps many parents deep down have become disillusioned with their education, so they don't feel a very strong desire to encourage their children to study. At least in regard to college education.

 

[Hygro]

Sorry, I don't follow.

You said you were talking about the jobs that don't require a prior education. KG was pointing out that many jobs, those very jobs in fact, are requiring an education outside of any market or competitive need.

This combo points out that our levels of unemployment aren't being driven by a lack of educated workers but by a lack of demand for workers in general.