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I have a friend who started a charter school. He said the reason charter schools do better is nothing to do with teaching, it is that they are allowed to kick out the trouble makers.

Public schools are required to take all applicants. In the past my town had a special school where you got sent if you were caught with drugs or other major infraction.

Maybe try the Danegeld approach? If a student is good all week give them $50 on Friday.

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So children of privilege can behave however they want?

That’s not what OP said. In public schools, there are no consequences versus charter schools. Whether you’re privileged or not is not entirely correlated with if you have the capacity to be a functional, effective student.

But OP proposed a solution based on carrots, giving students $50 a week for good behavior. Students born with privilege will obtain a smaller benefit from this system, and will behave how they wish.

Propose an alternative mechanism. If you can’t use a stick, and you can’t use a carrot, how else will you encourage behavior conducive to educational achievement?

Now you're getting it.

I take it that you knew the person was joking, and you're just being...............???? Argumentative? Devil's advocate?

A troll.

More a gadfly, really.

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