What ISN'T wrong with this?

Lets just hand them the house and be done with it!

Talk about teaching kids absolutely nothing about the real world. Expectations. Lets talk about that word.

My understanding of expectations is that its expected of me to raise my kids. It's expected of me to be responsible in life. As a kid it was expected of me to go to school everyday, clean my room, go to the bathroom in the toilet, brush my teeth. It was taught to me that if I didn't do these things that there would then be consequences of some sort. No education meant one hell of a time trying to find a decent job. Messy room meant no clean clothes, stepping on something that may puncture my foot, lost homework, among other things. Not going to the bathroom in the toilet meant I would walk around with wet pants and possibly smelling like a sewer. And not brushing my teeth meant that I would have rotten teeth, bad breath, and many problems with said teeth as an adult. Consequences, Expectations.

Most people are required to work. Yes or no? If they don't, they live in squalor, they have no money for food, no heat, no water. Necessities in order to live. But I must ask, is there a real incentive there? I mean, are you or I or anyone else rewarded for good attendance? In my experience, no. Maybe I just live in the wrong part of the world or something. Then there are those who don't work and soak off the government, your tax dollars that many might actually work very hard for or better put, who DO work very hard for! And for what? Simply to just live!

Which leads me to this article.

Some schools offer students cars to reward good attendance

Last spring, 16-year-old Kaytie Christopherson won a brand-new $28,000 (€21,210) pickup truck, with an MP3 player, for near-perfect school attendance.

Great, perfect attendence, good for this girl and others like her who went to school everyday. A requirement in most states. In our school when we were young, perfect attendence was rewarded with a certificate and maybe recognition over the loudspeaker. Nothing more.

Not all the kids win something, their names go into a drawing but all the same, how is it that a car serves as an appropriate offering for doing something that these kids should already be doing?

Schools are just really messed up! The more I read the more disgusted I get. I certainly wouldn't want my kids to be in this drawing...It's just wrong. Some schools offer movie tickets or gas vouchers, now that is something I could grow to accept. But another school offers either $10,000 or a car? Are schools now turning into a lottery? And where in the hell do they get $10,000?

And in Wyoming, even a one-student increase in average daily enrollment means another $12,000 (€9,090) in state funding for the year.

Now after reading that, who is the incentive really for? I dont' care if car dealers donate 50 cars, this is just really a messed up way to go about getting kids to attend school! Parents, Hello, where are you????????

Oh, there is just so much wrong with this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!