Those 15 years old were willing to be suicide bomber for 305 bucks and, that was a pretty good deal for them
You have got to be kidding?
One of very many efforts at Madrassash reforms was organized at a major US University, working with native Pakistani educators. A huge time and effort, and expense was used, with goal to put moderate Pakistani educators into the most extreme madrassahs.
RESULT: The Taliban are always watching, never ends, along with al Qaida. When the moderate teachers arrived within a few days they were beheaded!
Public education in Pakistan has long needed rejuvination. Madrassas in general, feel free to correct me, are a more recent years development, since the late 1970s or 1980s, out of Saudi Arabia, as an outreach of the Wahabbi extremist radical Islamist movement.
I fully understand the poor, economically disadvantaged, tend to go to Madrassas. But your note here is that of a highly educated man not of a rote religious verse memorizer, so I doubt your background to be other than upper class. We today have now young men who were raised and educated here in the US some few of whom have returned to join al Qaida and the Taliban. These technically actual US citizens, example, "The American" who tends to be in Yemen of late, but travels elsewhere with false passports and changing physical appearances (disguises) speak and write almost flawless English but broadcast reverse terrorist recruiting message to try to lure other American Muslim youth from the USA to the war on terrorism zone for training to be both a violent terrorist fighter as well as to use them for world propaganda purposes.
Then there was the Islamabad madrassah under Musharraf's regime as President where he had to use soldiers and fought a several weeks long battle with radical teachers and students armed and trained to kill right in the middle of Islamabad, a city not a country madrassah.
This particular inside the City of Islamabad, the capitol of Pakistan, violent madarssah episode led to the US Embassy having many US Marine Guards added to staff the physical protection of our Embassy to Pakistan there in Islamabad.
Pakitani military authorities have caputured young would be suicide bombers who the terorists kidnapped out of madrasses. These youths lives were saved by the Pak military and related authorites having captured them first. These saved would have been young suicide bombers told and still tell the world of members of their family being held hostage with theats of these family members being murdered unless the youths would "be" or "become" suicide bombers.
No economic pay for dying status there, just more thuggery to extort murder and mayhem.
Public schools YES for all in Pakistan with free uniforms and books, fees and tuition all paid by the religious offering for the education of the children of Pakistan, by the Government of Pakistan, and, yes, if need be, by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, directly.
Radical Wahabbi Madrdassas as exported by the Wahabbi extremests into Pakistan NO.
...they want to fight a two-front war 
