shing truants for years, but that hasn’t brought them back to school,” one school principal said. “Now we are trying the positive approach. Not only do you learn by showing up every day, but you earn.” In San Francisco, the Board of Education has had a somewhat similar idea. Schools that show a decrease in deliberate destruction of property can receive the amount of money that would have been spent on repairs and replacements. For example, 12,000 dollars had been set aside for a school’s property damages every year. Since repair expenses of damaged property required only 4,000 dollars, the remaining 8,000 dollars was turned over to the Student Activities’ Fund. “Our democracy operates on hope and encouragement,” said a school board member. “Why not provide some positive goals for students and teachers to aim at?”