Merit pay for parents on the agenda in Iowa
Des Moines IA (TWP)
Middle school science teacher Rhonda Spelling met with legislators at the state capitol on Tuesday to discuss a proposed bill on merit pay for parents that she co-authored. The bill would issue merit pay funds, similar to how they are rewarded to teachers, to parents whose children aren’t failures.
Using funds from the state lottery, the legislation would make it possible to pay parents of children for a variety of outcomes and behaviors, such as not getting pregnant or (in the case of male children) not getting another adolescent pregnant. Merit pay can also be earned if parents don’t allow their children to work from 4 to midnight at McDonald’s on school nights.
The bill also provides merit pay for parents whose children bring a pencil and piece of paper to class, stay awake, and consistently fail to reveal cleavage, camel toe, or ass crack in their normal school attire. Some exceptions will be made for accidental exposure of said cleavage or crack, and the reward will be measured by
