Sometimes a new education reform idea comes out of the blue…this time its a very strange one. According to Mitch Daniels (Governor of Indiana, USA), students who graduate early should receive an amount of money…a golden parachute.
His idea is to give these ‘early graduated students’ the money that would have been spent on their education if they had stayed in school the full 12 years. Normally, schools spend approximately $5,865.78 per student each year. So when a student can graduate in less than 12 years, why not give the money to the student? He or she could use it very well to further his or her education.
These payments would give students an extra incentive to study hard in high school and go on to college, with a financial boost of the state helping them. But is this realistic? Isn’t this whole idea making education ‘a rat race’, in which each student has to graduate as fast as they can in order to get the most money?
Nicolas Pollet
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_d19e2d9c-7d2f-571f-b11e-be8969abf46a.html
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