Cash : An Incentive For Good Grades

If students are rewarded for quality schoolwork, grades may initially improve. They may show more excitement. However, in the article “Why You Shouldn’t Pay Children for Grades” by Amy Mccready, it is found that the enhanced grades deteriorate along with the excitement for the payment. Most children simply lose interest in the reward. It is better to just let youth accomplish

School is slave labor. Rather than enjoying or learning from their classes, students are forced to do useless work that will often be forgotten immediately. Grades are meant to show much a student understands a class, but instead are used as a scale of how well a student can regurgitate answers onto a test. Students only work for good grades because of the threat of being punished for failure, and the promise of reward for passing. The punishments in this case are detention or trouble from teachers, and the rewards are making the honor roll or getting bragging rights. The real reward for learning should be having new knowledge, but this is not taken into consideration. Jerry Farber, a professor at U.S.D, made the strong claim that grades are useless and harmful in his essay, “A Young Person’s Guide to the Grading System.” I wholeheartedly agree with Farber’s objection to our current grading system.

The general argument made by the author Arianna Prothero in her work ‘Does Paying Kids to Do Well in School Actually Work’ is that paying students for grades only works for students who are already doing well within their classes. Throughout the article, the author was appearing to be neutral about the topic. Prothero uses the statement “the effects are small if even there at all” to emphasize the point about the incentive only working for students who are almost there. These pupils are the students who only need to put in a small amount of work and effort to achieve this reward.

Giving your children money for satisfying grades that they get doesn't benefit them with their career that they will have as adults. Let me back this up. If they get paid for the super grades that they received they will soon have an expectation that everything good that they do they should receive something in return. This makes kids not try to the best of their ability because these children know

The article “Why You Shouldn’t Pay Children for Grades” was written by Amy McCready. McCready explains that parents should “inspire a love of learning, cultivate good habits and allow children to plot their own course, they will truly flourish.” Throughout the article McCready provides reasons that serve as evidence for this main idea. McCready explains that school is not just about grades, but also about how well children develop key skills for later in their life. Also, McCready explains that children will not be rewarded for every job well done in the future, and if parents continue to pay for grades children will expect a reward for everything they do well.

One time, I got a good grade and my grandma gave me money. If school is truly wants student to be motivated to do well in the school should pay student for a better grade. Motivate student prepares them for high school higher test score. From better graduation rates for learning about work making kids smarter there are many positive effects of paying student for a higher grade.

“Why can’t our hard work have an income?”. Almost all students have had a similar thought at a time in their lives. To them, the incessant striving and vassalage they do for school deserves a salary. However, the situation with the exchange of grades for payment is a problematic state of affairs. In the predicament of schools giving students this opportunity, it will certainly lead to catastrophic events for all parties involved, especially, in the long run. Insightful to the statistics and evidence of both standpoints, school payment for grades is a situation best abstained because it causes quagmires. In agreement with this, say it causes conflicts, it’s only short-term, and causes negative impacts in the long run. By not paying students, you avoid turmoil, cut out a short-term motivator, and allow their future selves a better chance academically.

It was shown that promising kids that they will get paid in exchange for higher grades or attendance led to increased less effort in school. The ability to learn was actually a failure, it had little direct impact on the kids. I intend to use this article as a outline for should students get paid for good grades.

Research has shown that the money incentive works best for Hispanics and students who have behavioral issues. According to a Harvard study, in the school year of 2008-09 the academic gains of Hispanics and other subgroups on the DC-CAS standardized tests were equivalent to an additional five months of schooling. These improvements were attributed to money incentives that the school offered (Turque). This evidence shows that in Washington D.C hispanics increased their standardized test scores to a proportion that is equal to another full academic year of learning all because of cash incentives. Additionally, the article states, “the group that achieved the biggest test score gains was students who had been suspended the previous school year (2007-08) for disciplinary reasons” (Turque). Essentially, this quote means that the cash incentive was most effective for students who were generally troublemakers in the past (this includes the Hispanics). Although there are bright spots to this experiment as shown in the evidence, there are not enough mutual gains from other kids around the country to continue this method. Plus, just because Hispanics and troubled kids had the largest increase in scores, does not necessarily mean that they had the best scores; they could have gone from a failing grade to a

First of all, when kids get money for good grades, they are unable to spend it effectively. A child are more likely to spend money on items such as games, candy or objects of their interest instead of items that could be more beneficial towards themselves. They don’t know how to handle responsibility and have not been taught how to utilize their money. “Economy does not lie in sparing money, but, in spending it wisely” (Huxley, 2014). Children don’t understand the value of money and how hard their parents work to receive enough to provide for them. With this hard earned money, their parents fill their necessities while the kids fulfill their desires. “A penny saved is a penny earned” (Franklin, 2014).

Claim: schools should pay kids for good grades. It's important because they will get interested in school. Kids should get paid for good grades because they will start to get more interested in school classes, in Texas to Massachusetts, a growing number of students pocketing cash for good grades or advanced test scores and Sat exams, don't you guys want your kids to subside in school? And in life?(NEA website)

Underperforming schools are a mess. The students don’t behave, get bad grades and bring down the school’s reputation. Schools like these are most likely to have not as many students succeed in graduating. They are the schools that have the run down playgrounds, old textbooks, and no technology. The Cash for Grades program is supposed to be a program that can end all of this. This program basically speaks for itself, it gives students the opportunity to earn money be getting good grades. Paying students to get good grades is a horrible idea. This is a bad idea because an enlargement in cheating would take place in schools, kids would start only doing things for money, and it is a waste of our tax payer’s money.

What would happen if students are paid? If schools truly want students to learn they shouldn’t pay students for good grades. Paying students for their grades can lead to lower academic performances. In addition, the students who are getting payed will dampen their natural enthusiasm for learning. It also gives kids unneeded pressure extra pressure. Paying students for good grade is a bad idea because they will have lower academic performances, their enthusiasm will dampen and students will have unneeded extra pressure.

Should students get paid for getting good grades? Yes because then students will try harder and do better in their classes. Test grades can improve also if rewarded. This also gives students convenience and something to work for. It can also give students a little look at what it’s like to have a job, because they would get paid for their hard work. It could make students fell good about themselves knowing that their hard work is being recognized. Students should know that their work is appreciated and noticed that would give the student convenience and appreciation.

Keeping kids grades up is very important to the school. There is more than one way to keep kids engaged in the classroom and promote good grades or effort on their work. The school can suggest a lot of things to get students to achieve a good academic performance level. They can offer rewards, such as a school currency system, periodic parties, treats for good academic performance, etc. Additionally, the school could suggest the outcomes of bad academic performance. The facts and the cold hard truth would definitely motivate kids to study to guarantee a successful future.