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Public schools in the city of Detroit are now rewarding students for attendance with cash prizes and gift cards. Apparently, no one has told the students that going to school and studying hard is in their best interests and acts as its own reward.
Even parents can get in on the action if their children have good attendance records.
How did we come to this in America? Why are we even bothering with public schools at this point?
FOX News reports:
Detroit schools offer students up to $1,000 for perfect attendance as program expands
Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) paid students up to $1,000 for perfect attendance and is expanding the incentive program to middle schoolers after district officials say it successfully reduced chronic absenteeism.
Now in its second year, the Perfect Attendance Pays initiative targets the winter months — from Jan. 5 to March 20 — when attendance historically dips across the district.
“DPSCD is continuing the Perfect Attendance Pays initiative for the 2026–27 school year for high school students and expanding it to include middle school students,” a district spokesperson told Fox News Digital Friday.
“At the middle school level, parents of eligible students with perfect attendance during each five-day cycle will receive a $50 gift card.”
District officials clarified that the financial incentives are not funded by taxpayers or standard state educational aid.
“The incentive is funded through interest generated through district funds awaiting to be used for facility projects. Federal and state revenue is not used to fund the incentive, nor is the incentive offered on fall or spring count days,” the spokesperson added.
Detroit Public Schools has been hit hard by a national chronic absenteeism epidemic, recording a 60.9% chronic absentee rate for the 2024–25 school year.
This is wrong on so many levels.
Detroit Public Schools is expanding a program that pays high school students $100/week and middle schoolers $50/week for perfect attendance from January through March.
Last year 12,800 high schoolers received at least 1 gift card and chronic absenteeism fell from 64% to 54%.… pic.twitter.com/3pXCGsKMaQ
— NewsForce (@Newsforce) August 18, 2026
Detroit Public Schools is now PAYING students to show up.
High schoolers can earn $100 a week and middle schoolers $50 a week for perfect attendance under the “Perfect Attendance Pays” program, which runs from January through March.
Black students make up 81% of the district.… pic.twitter.com/ytzhK25ota
— American AF (@iAnonPatriot) August 18, 2026
People who skip school are only hurting themselves.
No one deserves to be paid to learn at a ‘free’ school that was made for their benefit.
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