There have been several experiments by school districts at paying students for attendance, good behavior, and good grades. The most recent attempts in Washington, D.C. and New York City have shown some promising results. Money is a powerful incentive. Click on the title link, read the article and leave your thoughts about "money for grades." Posts should be 50-75 words.
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Money for grades did make me want to study more and make better grades in school (positive reinforcements) because I could then use the money to buy things that I wanted. But as I got into high school, the incentive for getting good grades turned into security of your future (gpa/rank). My opinion on this topic is that parents can do it for young students to build a habit of studying but not for high/college students.
The ultimate concept for mankind is that "people respond to economic incentives." There is no doubt that rewards for grades are beneficial short-term, but then the kids would expect rewards for everything they do, diminishing long-term self motivation. Nonetheless, people have always granted money rewards for grades: scholarships. College scholarships are the epitome of rewards for good grades, and I can personally say that they work as immense incentives. Clearly, money rewards can be beneficial.
During the early stages of elementary school and middle school, money was quite a good incentive to push me to reach my full potential grade wise. Yet, as I got older , money did not have the same effect as I realized grades were not important for my parents but for my future such as GPA and class ranking and furthering my chances of being accepted into various colleges. Ultimately, my view on using money as an incentive is great for a short period of time to instill the habbit of studying and striving for good grades, but in the end it is the student's will to have a successful life in whatever career they may choose.
Giving money for grades does push one to succeed, but for the wrong reasons. When money is an incentive, one can forget the value that lies in learning and education, the morals that are instilled with pursuit of knowledge. On the other hand, school is like a full time job in and of itself. Therefore, payment can be justified to for all the work you put in. I'm really not sure at all. I was never paid for grades, but expected to succeed. Maybe that's the greater motivation, one greater than the bribe of money, the desire to meet expectations and rise above the standard.
Although paying students for academic success may seem controversial and a matter of debate, in reality, students is already rewarded financially through scholarships and other grants. It would be pointless to pay students to actually try in school because how would the students strive for success in college? There are not going to be colleges, especially public institutions that are going to reward their students for fulfilling their role as students.
During my elementary and middle school years, recieving money for my grades was a great incentive. It made me appreciate my work i achieved in class, amd also ,made me want to do even better. My answer to this question is no. Paying kids for good grades is not wrong. I do feel that the parents should have a good reason for rewarding their kids. Honestly, my grandparents still pay me for my report cards. But it goes along with the child wanting to better themselves and their future. I want to become successful, therefore i make good grades which leads to me recieving monitary rewards.
I never got money for good grades but the concept makes sense: good grades good incentives. In a way trains children if it starts at a young age. Eventually they realize that when I get good grades I get money. Hopefully the idea can go through high school with scholarships. Essentially that's how I see monetary incentives, they prepare you for high school when you are working for scholarships. So its not a bad thing as long as the reward isn't some huge amount of money or the children are cheating to get the grade.
As a few people have noted, there are already monetary incentives for making good grades through scholarships. This sounds like a good argument at first but the fact of the matter is that not everyone will be able to attain a significant amount of scholarships to help them through college no matter how hard they try. Upfront gain while students are still in high school seems like a much stronger incentive to me and could help students who struggle to find motivation strive to make better grades. I feel like rewarding students for grades would not only yield benefits in the short term for the students but could help some kids achieve a level of academic success worthy of significant scholarships in the future and end up making a huge difference in their lives.
In a way we are already getting paid for grades because of scholarships and such. Also, we will hopefully get paid better later on when we have a better job than those who are uneducated. I would have said yes about a year ago, but now I realize that studying well has its rewards later on. Besides, we shouldn't make children greedy at such a young age.
Yes money is probably the most common incentive in general. It can get you what you want and can get rid of what you don't want. Money is powerful, but should it be necessarily be the motive for a child’s education? Definitely not. Children are supposed to educate themselves, with the help of their friends and peers, with having a firm and successful future as the motive, nothing else. Yes, we can get whatever with money but are we good enough to get what we want through our ideas and deeds. That is how children should think. Actually, that is how everyone should think
Although I was never given money as a reward for my grades, I can certainly see why other students would. Money is an incentive that pushes people to reach goals. However, when the incentive is offered for everything, the idea becomes obsolete and money becomes not a reward, but something expected. Thus, money should play a the role of the incentive only as long as it can be beneficial.
Like many students, I have been given money as a reward for receiving A's. However, using money as an incentive for getting good grades would be too much. Though students would be motivated to do well in school, they would do so not because of the desire to learn more, but rather because of the money involved. Eventually, the amount expected would increase. Nonetheless, using money as an occasional reward would not be a problem.
Many kids believe that going to school is our job and that we should get paid. It is our job, but we'll be paid later on in life when we go to a good college and get a good job. Kids in elementary should be paid to learn that good grades lead to good results. But as we progress we learn that we should strive to get good grades in order to excel later on in life.
Paying a student will allow them to be more studious for the same reason people work, for money, in rare cases they do it to actually learn. When a student gets paid for doing school work, they begin to look at their classes and school as grades, they still learn, however, it would usually be only temporary. To me the idea of paying students to get good grades seems slightly extreme to me, for school is not about getting good grades rather to receive more knowledge for the future.
I don’t believe money can be a good incentive. I was never awarded with money for doing well. It can only mislead kids. They will start taking everything for granted, and won’t ever know the value behind earning it properly. Education would become something they are doing to get money, and not for their future. It can only bring the bad characteristics like materialistic, greedy and stingy.
Even though receiving a certain amount of money for high grades might seem like a good motivational tool to encourage children at a young age, it only works best in small quantities and limited situations. Personally, I was never paid when I achieved an ‘A’ in a class because it was expected of me. Bribes and rewards were never given. It taught me that hard work is paid off in the long run and not in temporary rewards. Children should be held to a high standard without bribery in order to reach success, not by simply holding out a paycheck formed strictly around their grades.
I feel that kids should not get paid for good grades. Kids need to see that the education they are getting is for them. This being said you should not need to get paid to better yourself. If paying a kid every time they get a good grade where does it stop? The problem with youth today is that most kids will not do something just because it's the right thing to do. They need to get paid for it.
In my opinion, kids should be rewarded for their achievement in school. It motivates the little kids to strive and work hard in school as they are not aware of its importance at their young age. However, it should not be at a point where the kid would expect a reward for every single action they perceive as hard work. When the child reaches a certain mature age, the rewarding must stop. The child must gain their own view about being successful in school. They should adviced about how choices in their life will affect them in future. The child would then develop a motive for themselves to become successful in school which would benefit them in future. Their academic success would lead them to a bright future, which is their reward of life.
Money for grades can be used as a motivating incentive of children of all ages. From elementary school kids who get paid for A's and B's on their report cards to college students who get scholarship money for achieving good grades. Money has power when it comes to people because with it people can buy what they want and no matter the age of the child/young adult who is offered it for a grade will work and study harder to achieve it. Money for grades makes kids persevere through the long nights of studying to achieve something that they will have worked hard for and be rewarded as well for their efforts.
I believe that there is nothing wrong with using money as an incentive for children to make good grade. It only becomes a problem when parents go overboard and give them money for, "...walking the dog, to making their bed, to shoveling the snow..."(Darwin). Then, kids are learning bad habits. As kids become adults,they may not do things for anyone, or even themselves, if money isn't involved, which could cause major problems.
Money is not a good incentive. Paying kids to make good grades might sound good at first, but in the long run kids will only do things if they get money. Kids should make good grades willingly, not because they're paid to do so. As somone mentioned earlier, kids should have a dersire to learn.
Being paid to make good grades will no doubt have a positive outcome. Children especially are mesmerized by the concept of money because it gives them a sense of maturity and responsibility. However, what happens to the children whose parents cannot afford to give their children an incentive such as money. Obviously our economy cannot fulfill this incentive either due to the debt we have acquired. Ultimately I do not agree with being paid for good grades because it may backfire on those who already struggle enough with making good grades.
Economic incentives, in my opinion, are not necessarily negative rewards that kids could obtain. As long as kids understand the reasons why they are being rewarded instead having the expectations, money rewards can be beneficial. During their formative years, children can both strive to be the best and be awarded for their hard work as long as their behaviors and morals maintain at a proper level. Ultimately, paying kids for their hard work prepares them for their future in the career world because, in reality, it is human nature to expect rewards for work.
I absolutely agree that parents should encourage their children to get good grades by giving them money at a young age. By positively reinforcing them with money, children will be more willing to work harder because they know they will get an incentive. However, I also feel that parents should also instill critical values into children, such as teaching them that their education is invaluable as many other kids around the world do not have the same opportunity as they do. Eventually, parents should stop giving monetary incentives to children as they should be internally motivated to succeed in school.
Using money as an incentive to get better grades is only useful at a young age. This is when most people develop their study habits, so , as a short term reward, this would help maximize it. As the person grows older into their high school years, they shouldn't be thinking about the money, because that's all they will see their grades as: cash. In high school, the student should want to work and study for a better GPA and more scholarship opportunities, which, in the long run, will lead them to success.
i think using money as an incentive is very useful on young children and young adults. it can be used as an motivational tool to encourage the children to make better grades and to study. starting in a young age it can help them to build a routine on studying and also benefits them in the future. but i think parent should be aware on the amount
Money for grades isn't essential. A parent can start rewarding their children with smaller things, things that have value to their kids. Kids will like anything from candy to the cheapest toys. But teenagers, on the other hand, realize the value of money, where as children do not. Teenagers know that money can buy them things that they want, it is necessary for transportation, which therefore, is connected to freedom. If money is given out to children and teenagers, it should be given in lower amounts because if given in large quantities, the child will expect no less. Money is a good incentive, but it is only necessary in proportions to the parents' child's age. But it should also be limited because it is teaching kids that they may be rewarded for everything they do, when in real life, not everything that they accomplish will be rewarded.
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