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re: Students paid to take COVID tests
Posted on 1/14/22 at 10:45 pm to SeymourButts
Posted on 1/14/22 at 10:45 pm to SeymourButts
It’s a thing.
Education Week
Education Week
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In the hallways of New Orleans schools, students talk about the headphones, video games, or Christmas presents they’re saving up for with an unusual new source of income: cash incentives for the COVID-19 tests they take. The money they’re budgeting has accrued gradually in their online accounts, $10 a week for every COVID-19 test they take at school. For students who’ve participated since the beginning of the school year, those accounts could soon hold a few hundred dollars. “Once kids realized this incentive existed, we saw a lot of our kids really pushing their parents to sign the consent form,” said Tiffany Delcour, the chief operating officer of New Orleans schools.
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Posted on 1/15/22 at 12:02 am to CajunTiger92
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“What we’ve heard from districts and schools is that COVID fatigue is real,” said Leah Perkinson, the manager of the pandemics health team at the Rockefeller Foundation, which has worked with schools, states, and the federal government to grow testing efforts. “People are tired, they are frustrated, they are exasperated ... I think incentives are a way to inject some new energy into this space
#jumpsoutwindow
Posted on 1/15/22 at 8:04 am to CajunTiger92
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or Christmas presents they’re saving up for with an unusual new source of income
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In the hallways of New Orleans schools
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