Obviously, doing well in school should be its own reward. However, in todays society that doesn't seem to be the case. What do you think of this program being tried out in a few Brooklyn middle schools? Free cell phones and minutes for good grades.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Free Cell Phones for Achievement in School
Obviously, doing well in school should be its own reward. However, in todays society that doesn't seem to be the case. What do you think of this program being tried out in a few Brooklyn middle schools? Free cell phones and minutes for good grades.
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Quite frankly, this seems just as ridiculous as the previous idea put forward from these New Yorkers of getting money from good grades. The same dirty habits will surface to attain these rewards (phones), and as always, a system intended to provide good with motivation and reward will be plagued by corruption.
I think that this is for a good reason... good motivating skills... but will it help? Yes... for a little while... but what happens when all children get cell phones or there is a new thing that everyone wants... and then you are placed in the exact state that you started in. That is why it is always the best policy to teach what needs to be taught and teach that your success is a reward in itself... not the phone you will receive for doing so well. MORALS!
Teaching kids to work so they receive instant rewards is not something that should be taught.
If you teach kids to get an A, then you instantly get a cell phone, they will always be looking for receive that "cell phone" in whatever they do.
Instead of teaching instant rewards, they should focus on working hard to better your future, such as, "you should work hard now to get a good job to support your family." Instead of "work hard now, and we will give you a phone."
The second these kids don't receive their "cell phone" so to speak, they may lose all determination.
In short:
Don't teach kids to work for instant satisfaction.
well i think that to people that cant afford a cell pone that would be good but i think that its a bad idea because that just increases the views that we have now as if you dont give me anything in return then i cant do it... it encourages the attitude of having to get something in return for everything you do instead of doing it because it benefits you
too much cheating and too expensive of a plan to get students motivated.. its the students job 2 want to learn because their future is on the line, not their new cell fone..
good morals should be kept & not substituted to make kids do good jus 2 get a short term reward.
I think it is a great idea. There are cheaper ways to remind students to study or do there homework. Whatever happen to the middle school's agendas. Every Friday my agenda was checked and i had to have something written down for every period. Just buy a load of agendas instead of phones, batteries, chargers, cases. Also i would def. not give a free cell phone back to the school.
This idea IS just as dumb and ridiculous as awarding students for their good grades. Students should want to do well in school simply because the education is important to their success in the future. Unofrtunately, this is not the case. How much dishonesty or cheating the system is going to arise once cell phones are being offered?
This idea is quite similar to the idea of rewarding students with money for good grades. Frankly, the idea is stupid. You can't always reward kids with material goods because they will always be expecting an award. Seriously, what's wrong with the north?
I thinking on the same lines as dmitriy, this is as pointless as the get money for good grades. Plus the money the school would use to buy the cell phones or minutes could be put to better use. And on top of that if i we teach is rewards, how will the kids learn to motivate or even plan on their owns. If all there told is study this for this test becasue if you get a A, u will get a phone. Then the student will study and get a phone. But when hes out of school, theres no one to tell him what to do.
Also if it was me. My motivation would not be to get the phone, but to get it and sell it. And to keep selling all the minutes that i would recieve.
There's a pro and a con for this.
The pro is that it does motivate the student to try and get a good grade at school. I think this program will motivate the students that isn't trying as hard as they should.
The con is that this will make them get use to the system of work/study hard for the rewards and not work for the purpose of their future or for their own benefit. Once they encounter something without a reward they'll still be the same oldself.
It's a good idea but it has many flaws. I definitely think that the students' grades will be better if they have an incentive to work for. However, giving kids a cell phone for good grades will only have them expecting to be instantly rewarded for all their hard work. They need to realize that their hard work will pay off in the long run. Society will surely corrupt if everyone expects to be rewarded the instant the work hard. Life isn't that cool.
This idea is basically the same as the one for giving money to students for doing well in school. If they must get involved, the United States needs to at least find some other way of motivating or helping students to succeed in school besides promising money or some materialistic reward.
It seems to be a very interesting way of motivating the children of America to work harder towards their education. The only sad part about this is that this is really the only way to encourage kids today. They dont understand that they are really hurting themselves by demanding prizes for doing things that benifit them already.
i think i have to agree with the rest of the critics of this program. Rewarding good grades with some sort of material prize is simply absurd. Kids should WANT to learn and reach educational enlightenment. Second, why reward them with a prize that is banned in public schools? Society seems to spiralling downwards as children have come to appreciate materials more than knowledge and a good education.
i guess it's nice for the students but i don't think they should be rewarded for doing what they should be doing.
the promoters of this idea are under the impression that kids will actually work harder and do their work in order to get these cell phones, however there are two major flaws to this idea for "success." one, the kids will not work hard at all to get these presents, instead they will find the easiest way to get them, which would most likely be cheating. there is no way these kids will actually do the work when they can just copy it from someone else and still get the prize. second, the fact of the matter is that most kids already have a cell phone, so why would they work hard to get good grades so that they can get something they already have??? this whole scheme is ludicrous if you ask me
I think the fact that they have to resort to giving students cell phones is stupid to say the least. Personally I think kids should put in the work and get good grades simply because they want to for themselves and if they don't then that's their fault and they can suffer the consequences. Its just weird because Were constantly being warned and watched for our cell phone activity but still I think they couldve come up with better alternatives
Tiffany.
Arbitrariness may be defined as determining a principle by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle, and that is exactly what this notion may be categorized as. In our ends-based and goal-oriented society, incentive reigns as the sole elixir by which society's processes may be perpetuated. In other words, the selfish nature of humans inherently persuades them to seek out the most beneficial action over others or even inaction. However, when weighing whether or not to do an arduous task, such as education in the context which the New York bureaucracy is forcing us to look at is as, pros and cons must come into play. This is what sets apart incentive from motivation. For example, I may choose to put hours of exercise into a workout program(an obvious hypothetical considering who's writing this) based on the incentive of attracting more women to my newly studified body, but it is only after weighing in the fact that the lost time in exercise will be reimbursed by a prolonged lifespan that I will find the motivation to pursue such an endeavor. Thus, I would be looking towards a lack of the punishment of sooner death more than the superfluous benefit of becoming attractive when deliberating. Likewise, when in school, I pursue many of my academic goals based merely on the fact that I fear what punishment would come if I did not, whether it be an immediate zero or even greater long term effects. Though the entire game of life may be based upon an undetermined goal so far, I reassure my unjustified actions by the knowledge that I avoided some sort of dire consequence. Syllogistically, then if I am given the opportunity to seek extra credit or some endeavor that has a lesser or nonexistent punishing consequence, I am much less likely to pursue it. Therefore, the thought that offering phones to children in order to pursue their studies is entirely arbitrary because not only is there no intuitive link between academic work and some sort of reward(whose origins are ambiguous at best and clearly undermine the already abysmal salary of teachers), but the probability of the students acting on such an incentive is unlikely due to the lack of motivation it provides.
i tihnk its pretty strange. give kids phones for good grades seems pretty odd and unusual to me, likely since phones may be the cause of bad grades for some. Some people spend their nights chatting with friends and boy/girlfriends instead of doing hw. it distracts people. everyone will have a phone, which is not even allowed to be used at school. All the phones will be the same, things will be lsot and stolen and mixed around. There is no uniqueness. Withe afch additional A you get mroe minutes to waste? thats a graet deal but i think students may be motivated for the phone, and after that they wont try as hard once they gte the actual product. people will all be texting in clas and in the restrooms. i dont see any good coming out of this. i think giving kids bananas for A's is better than cellphones, at least we are promoting something good for you.
This would be a good short term study to see if it would actually aid students, but overall it just shows us how spoiled our nation is becoming.
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