“Cash don’t add up to class.”

In my upstanding private high school, you got kicked out if you didn’t show up. In my grandparent’s school, you got your fingers broken with a ruler for blinking the wrong way. Here’s a new idea from the dirty, aged hippies who attended school with my parents:

More than 20,000 Arizona teens dropped out of the class of 2006.

To fight the problem, 75 students from low income families at Amphi High and 100 from Rincon high were picked for the new program.

The students will get $25 a week as an incentive to stay in school.

I don’t agree with this because I’m anti-bribery, but I suppose it’s a step up from the current system where we pay lazy “poor” people to make great decisions like popping out a dozen kids they don’t plan on parenting and spending their monthly “allowance” on “fresh” Nikes and McDonald’s instead of Payless and real food, thereby insuring diabetes and obesity which well, we’ll also be paying for. That said, twenty five bucks is just enough to buy a fat sack of bud and a 2 fo’ 5 40 oz at the local bodega, which is where I’m willing to bet this money will go.

Pardon me if I come off as cynical here, but the above character is awash in cash and is still very trash, and I don’t think a couple hundred million more would make a difference.