Texas City Offers Reward for Truancy Tips
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Arlington, Texas is offering a first-of-its kind program to keep kids in school. Any person who reports students who are skipping class will be given a reward.
The incentive program, called "You Earn, They Learn. Stop Truancy," is a partnership between the Arlington school district and police department that will offer $20 to a tipster who reports a student who has skipped school for the day and $40 to the tipster if the student has missed several days of school.
Police officers will verify the report before any award is given. The tips will remain anonymous.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Many parents do believe the incentives will work.
What they did when I was a kid, we’d get tickets and you’d have to go to court for it. But that doesn’t seem to be working, so I guess it’s a better way to try to get to it,” Monica Adams, an Arlington parent told myFOXdfw.com.
To read more about the program to combat truancy see the myFOXdfw.com. story here.