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Proposal: Tie welfare payments to kids' school grades

via www.mediaite.com

Imagine coming home with a report card of Fs when your mom's check depends on it...

This afternoon, Fox’s Happening Now took on the Tennessee proposal to tie parents’ welfare payments to their kids’ school grades, leading to a clash between the law’s creator and a former superintendent who finds the idea to be misguided at best.

Republican State Rep. Stacey Campfield explained that the proposal will take the welfare-school connection “to the next level by saying, listen, if your kid is failing every single class because who knows what reason — unless you are a special needs child or something like that — we’re going to stop or cut back on the amount of straight cash payments you’re going to get.”