Associated Press George McDougall High School principal Don Thomas, hands over a cheque to student Amanda Burbridge,14, after a school assembly in Airdrie, Alberta. High schools throughout the country are offering rewards cash, vehicles, exam exemptions for students with perfect school attendance.
Principals say it s a bit unorthodox, but they get a big bang for their buck.
Like many of his peers, Dwight Bussman went away to summer camp for three weeks when he was 13. But instead of learning how to tie-dye or sail, he took a course on theoretical foundations of computer science. He loved every minute of it. Bussman, now 18 and a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, was considered a gifted child growing up. According to The Gifted Development Center in Denver, children usually demonstrate giftedness by showing good verbal and problem-solving skills, abstract reasoning and intense curiosity at an early age.