A hardscrabble elementary school in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods is offering $100 to eighth-graders who can graduate without getting into a fight.
"I wanted to challenge them to be what their families see in them, what we know they are," Stephanie Andrewlevich, principal of Mitchell Elementary, told philly.com.
"They have a choice — to become the violence they see in their day-to-day lives, or to be peaceful models for our school and our community."
But there is one catch: if anyone slips up, the whole class loses out on the cash.
Andrewlevich knows some might see the offer as bribery, but said: "I don't. I see it as an investment in our kids."
In the 2015-16 school year, nearly a quarter of Mitchell's eighth-graders had been suspended at least once.
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