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[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4201329.stm[/URL]
Around 200,000 teenagers are to receive £100 bonuses this week, under a government scheme which rewards them for continuing in education.
... had good enough attendance and effort levels last term to pick up the extra payments, which will be repeated in July and December.
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So, on top of the £30 means tested "allowance", they get a bonus for simply turning up? Way to spend our money, jackasses.
Around 200,000 teenagers are to receive £100 bonuses this week, under a government scheme which rewards them for continuing in education.
... had good enough attendance and effort levels last term to pick up the extra payments, which will be repeated in July and December.
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So, on top of the £30 means tested "allowance", they get a bonus for simply turning up? Way to spend our money, jackasses.
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My Dads a fireman, thats 21k a year, my Mums a secretary on 8k, total income = 31k. Does Pinko get anymoney? No, he works. Hard. For £3.85 an hour.
*Vomits VIOLENTLY*
*Vomits VIOLENTLY*
In theory it is a good system, giving money so they aren't forced into working to bring in money etc
Surely the reality suggests what many have said, people being bought off for their attendance and porbably wasting it away.
Surely the reality suggests what many have said, people being bought off for their attendance and porbably wasting it away.
I like it how people lump this with all the res**t of 'why Britain is such a sh*t country and I can't wait to move to Briatin-in-Spain, which is Britain-In-Sun'.
EMA is rubbish. I say this as I was a s**tudent at 6th form but 8 months ago. It's really not neccessary.
Aside from that, saying 'low earning families are lazy' is jus**t idiocy. My dad earns £14,000 a year. Lazy? No. Unorganised? Yes. He has a degree from Cambridge, worked his ass off in London and in publishing, and now is a journalis**t. Lazy?
The world is NOT so black and white as people always seem to want to believe.
Yes there are lazy and hard working, both in rich and poor.
The world isn't simple, and EMA exis**ts for a reason. I jus**t cannot see why, having experienced the sys**tem firs**t hand.
EMA is rubbish. I say this as I was a s**tudent at 6th form but 8 months ago. It's really not neccessary.
Aside from that, saying 'low earning families are lazy' is jus**t idiocy. My dad earns £14,000 a year. Lazy? No. Unorganised? Yes. He has a degree from Cambridge, worked his ass off in London and in publishing, and now is a journalis**t. Lazy?
The world is NOT so black and white as people always seem to want to believe.
Yes there are lazy and hard working, both in rich and poor.
The world isn't simple, and EMA exis**ts for a reason. I jus**t cannot see why, having experienced the sys**tem firs**t hand.
True, but there's more a chance they are... unfortunately.
I've met many benefit claimers in my time, so many bad experiences to question my position as a Socialist.
Anyway, this defers from this stupid scheme.
" We have falling attendance/literacyetc levels at school PLUS a rise in teenage binge drinking/drug taking "
" Hmmmm, how about we give them money to go to school. Surely that will solve all the problems... all those trouble makers will turn over a new leaf OR be forced to go to school, so make more trouble as their bored and then go down the Spar for some MD 20/20 at lunch time "
Yada yads
" GIVE THEM £100 BONUS "
I've met many benefit claimers in my time, so many bad experiences to question my position as a Socialist.
Anyway, this defers from this stupid scheme.
" We have falling attendance/literacyetc levels at school PLUS a rise in teenage binge drinking/drug taking "
" Hmmmm, how about we give them money to go to school. Surely that will solve all the problems... all those trouble makers will turn over a new leaf OR be forced to go to school, so make more trouble as their bored and then go down the Spar for some MD 20/20 at lunch time "
Yada yads
" GIVE THEM £100 BONUS "
Just because someone's parents don't earn a lot of money, doesn't mean that they are 'lazy'.
Makes me sick I do my education, good attendance, good effort. I do it for qualifications. Your telling me, people from low earnin backgrounds get paid? So, lazy parents means money for the kids. Parents who bust thier balls means nout for kids? Stupid government.
too many deep fried curries.
Stop popping this, I can feel the strain on my heart.
Right so I haven't missed a day of school for 7 years, and I get nothing, but some retard who shows up to school before getting all Es in his AS levels gets £100 for "trying hard". Some justice.
Oh who cares, really. Give them their £100, watch them blow it on crime (OH NO 1 in 4 teenage boys in the UK are repeated offenders!!!! Let's put them all under house arrest! Oh no actually lets give them money to buy more drugs!)
Government is clever
Oh who cares, really. Give them their £100, watch them blow it on crime (OH NO 1 in 4 teenage boys in the UK are repeated offenders!!!! Let's put them all under house arrest! Oh no actually lets give them money to buy more drugs!)
Government is clever
This £100 bonus is a load of balls.
If they turn up every day they get £30 a week anyway. So as a reward for getting several lots of £30 they give them a bounus of £100. Is it just me or is that retarded. There is no need for the exrta £100.
If they turn up every day they get £30 a week anyway. So as a reward for getting several lots of £30 they give them a bounus of £100. Is it just me or is that retarded. There is no need for the exrta £100.
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