Here's what it's come to in California, extra credit for a box of kleenex:
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Palo Alto High's budget is so tight that Sonia Ferrandiz-Bodoff's German teacher offers three extra credit points to any student who brings a box of tissues to class. In Cupertino, science teacher Katheryn McElwee gives her Monta Vista High students five points for a roll of paper towels.

Freakin' shameful (and I do not mean the teachers offering the extra credit, just so's you teachers out there know).
www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/education/8133259.htm
"Smoke 'em inside"