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Friday, December 30, 2005
Best of Get Schooled: Earning a Desk
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This post about a charter school’s practice of having students sit on the floor for the first few weeks of school and earn their desk and chair brought out some interesting responses.
Some praised the idea for breaking kids out of their entitlement mentality. Others shared this respondent’s view: “If they need to ‘earn’ anything, it should be good grades and not something as basic as a desk.”
