Forty students from Creekside High and Bear Creek Middle schools in Fairburn will be the first to try the "Learn & Earn" program, where students will get paid to attend after-school tutoring programs.
The running price is $8 an hour for each student. If each student does this for an hour after school, they will be making $40 a week. If the system goes into full use after this experimental stage, multiply that by a thousand or so students per school, that's $4000 per school per week. With about 25 weeks in a school year, multiply the $4000 a week by 25 weeks, and funding just the students' money will cost roughly $100,000 a year.
$100,000 per school per year, from tax payers who probably don't know about the system (that's not including extra teacher salaries, which would triple or quadruple the number).
The story is here.
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