School implements quisling reward policy
High School To Pay Student Informants For Tips On Campus Crime
Model High School in the Floyd County School District is implementing a fink policy. They will pay informants up to $100 for turning in their classmates for policy and criminal violations.
“It’s not that we feel there are any problems here,” said Principal Glenn White. “It’s a proactive move for getting information that will help deter any sort of illegal activity.”
Under the new policy, a student would receive $10 for information about a theft on campus, $25 or $50 for information about drug possession, and $100 for information about gun possession or other serious felonies.
Is this school so in danger of loosing control that they must resort to these measures? Actually, no. As the principal himself notes, there is no real problem present at the school. So why are they doing it? The only rational explanation I can come up with is that one of the precepts of a successful dictatorship is turning the governed against each other.
No Model High students have received the reward yet, but some questioned the logic behind it. Jaime Parris, a senior, said that most students already would tell faculty about anything that threatened student safety.
“But if it’s not going to hurt other people, I don’t think many people are going to tell on their friends,” she said.
Undoubtedly this will change as the school’s policy works at undermining student unity and trust.
Additional Contact Information:
Assistant Principal Steve Cunningham
Assistant Principal LaDonna Turrentine
(Tip credit to Peter Ferris and Jessie)
Well, can’t defend this! Stupid, stupid, stupid. Kids are loyal to each other and often refuse to tell authorities about things. But they can usually be convinced to tell if it is obviously wrong what the other kid did. Kids seem are idealistic than we are.
This is a difficult call. Kids are loyal. Loyalty is a good thing. However, if a citizen know of a person about to commit a crime or one who has committed a crime, he owse it to society to either help stop them or cause them to be caught. Kids have a hard time understanding that. However, paying money to tell cheapens being a citizen. Not that the US government doesn’t set a bad example — there are lots of rewards posted for helping catch terrorists and criminals. Hasn’t worked too well with terrorists, though.
One big difference there Barry is the rewards the government are handing out are for known crimnals. The government does not give you a reward for calling 911 to report shoplifting.
However since this is a government ran indoctrination center then I guess the Government does pay for ratting out people.
I’ve got no problem with this — we do it at my school.
It is part of the local CrimeStoppers program, and has been used to cut down on gang grafitti, classroom thefts, drug dealing, and even (last week) a gun on campus.
Its an extension of what we already do in society as a whole.
But if you would rather that students not be rewarded for standing with the law, that’s fine. let’s reinforce the notion of a code of silence — the kind that let a girl be raped and murdered in an NYC alley years ago, with not a soul intervening or calling the police.
Wow did you not see the part where it said this school didn’t have those kinds of problems?
My own experience is the kids who report crimes and gather evidence for these ‘leadership’ programs believe they are quarreling with a sibling. They are as likely to instigate the ‘crime’ as they are to report it. The kids reporting the crime are kids who understand family discipline and consequences. If you do involve children in reporting a crime, you should at least make sure you want to live with that child’s understanding of crime and consequence forever.
It’s effective because administrators may then select the reports they want to act on. There’s no official record of reports you don’t want to keep and a ‘kid’ is difficult to sue for slander. The bullies know who they can beat up, the schools are liberal with gossip and kids are a captive audience.
No matter how well-intentioned this policy may be, I see some serious problems with it.
First of all, what’s going to keep some misguided teenager from planting a knife or gun in someone else’s locker or bookbag and reporting it, just because he could use $100? Sounds like a great money-making scheme to me.
Second, do we really want our kids behaving like the Hitler Youth in pre-WWII Germany? Doesn’t this encourage the nonsense that comes about from all these zero-intelligence policies?
I can just picture the Law of Unintended Consequences working overtime on this one.
I agree with Dave about the possiblity of fraud (planting evidence, framing a kid you don’t like, etc.).
Also, does this reward money come from our tax dollars? Since these Government schools are constantly whining about not having enough money, is this a proper use of funds?
This program could conceivably lead to a safer school if administered fairly and with due process for students. It could also be a disaster if mishandled by inept administrators. I give it low probability for success if for no other reason than a HS kid is unlikely to be motivated by a $25 reward.
Just as zero-tolerance, has gone full circle, get ready for this to do the same. They are going to implement this type of program, in Tulsa, Ok. Public School.
The real truth is that crime by youth has fallen by 64% since 1975. I was shocked to see this. It just proves the media, has really played up youth crime. Recently some really criminal acts have happened in some schools.
The most maddening thing about that is “No Adult around to stop it.” Some safety program.
Read newest article by Jason Ziedenberg. He is the executive director of the Justice Policy Institute.
This new policy and others legislators are pushing through are strictly anti-youth. I guess we will just build more prisons.
Way to go totalitarionists of the world.
Hitler and Stalin would be proud!
most students fear to tell authorities about crimes commited by other students, not out of loyalty but the fear of being ostrizeds by their peers once your labled as a rat say good bye to your “friends”.
This is a VERY VERY bad idea!!! When I was in 3rd grade the girl that bullied me got her friends to lie and say that I flipped her off. Lucky for me that was the only year I had a decent teacher and she stuck up for me. Can you imagine, bullies getting kids in trouble just because they don’t like
them and getting paid for it? I’m homeschooled now but all my high school friends tell me one thing:
you rat out someone at school and you get jumped.