CPS Gives Car to 12-Year-Old

By Margaret Lyons in News on Jun 23, 2008 6:56PM

Chicago Public Schools gave a car to a 12-year-old for perfect attendance over a three-month period.

This is the first time the schools system has given away a car to encourage attendance. By attending school every day within any one of three time periods, a total of 189,115 students were eligible for the Dodge Caliber. Of those, about 150 names were randomly selected, and those students and their parents were invited to a dealership on South Western Avenue on Monday morning to put a key in the ignition and see if the engine would roar to life.

Congrats and everything, rising 7th grader Ashley Martinez, but....you're supposed to go to school. [Trib]