IMO the article isn't very informative.

I mean what was it like before the "incentive program?"


In grade school we had hall monitors, and teachers standing by the doors, to make sure none of us kids left or went wandering around.
We just sat and ate and talked and no one gave a crap. Better than sitting in class listening to a droning teacher.

In high school as soon as I got my license, I was never at school except for a class. Lunch period? I'm 10 miles away from school.
Year after I graduated, the school stopped allowing kids to leave campus for lunch period. Kids were too much in a rush, too many accidents, a few motorcycle deaths, few kids getting run over, too many late for class. So no leaving campus.
Oh the horror. Draconian efforts to force kids into the prison of high school, according to the paper.
Next year, couldn't eat outside. Too much litter and trash. Lunch period, everyone had to go to the cafeteria.

What's going on here?
Were kids free to go, wander off campus, go to the quad or whatever, and then on the 15th teachers and security officers put black bags over kids heads and dragged them to the cafeteria then locked them in?

What exactly has changed from before the program, and after implementing it.
How exactly is it enforced?
How different is it from the majority of other schools in the city, state, region, country?
What has really changed for the kids?

Is the program actually meaningful?
Or does it just look bad when printed in the paper a certain way?
In middle school we had an "incentive" program for grades and extracurricular activities. Improve x amount, do x thing, you get x tickets, which you could then turn in for toys and prizes.
Few gave much of a crap.

In grade school we were asked to sell chocolate bars to raise money for something. I think I bought 3 bars with allowance money...after I had already eaten them.
Most kids didn't give a crap. Some parents/teachers thought it was "bad" for forcing kids to hustle like drug dealers peddling candy, or something like that.
Most of us kids just didn't give a crap. We took a box of chocolate home, and forgot about it. Some kids tried really hard. Most didn't.
It didn't really matter.



Just seems like another click bait article meant to incite emotional outrage, without actually relevant information.