School Pay Program

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

    First off, school requires a mental effort which by definition is considered to be work. Since we go to school for 8 hours every day and do that about 180 days per year, we should get paid if we keep our grades up because it’s hard to do. Keeping good grades requires lots of hard work and effort. It also requires time, which some of us

Students should get paid to study, to have good grades, and to have good work habits so that they become better students, more motivated and therefore are more successful when they enter the workforce as adults. Many people believe this is the formula for success. Get paid for the good grade, right? There are three compelling reasons why students should be paid to go to school: going to school is essentially a full time job so students should be paid; money is a strong motivator, especially for kids; and it’s good for the economy to have future workers who are motivated by money to do an excellent job. After discussing these three points, it will be hard to dispute the fact that paying students to go to school and get good grades is a good thing and has positive results.

Margaret Heffernan once said, “For good ideas and true innovation, you need a mix of human interaction, conflict, argument, and debate.” In the article it is debated if there is any benefit in monetary rewards for students. Teachers, and parents alike are always trying to find the best way to reward and inspire there students to do well in school. Matthew G Springer is a professor of Public Policy and Education at Vanderbilt University. He is also the director of the National Center on Performance Incentives. He wrote this article to display his research and studies.

Some kids may get stressed due to their grades, and knowing they will be remunerated for all their hard work will make them feel better. For example, I don't get an allowance so sometimes it is difficult paying for my needs. I don't always get good grades, but if I acknowledged that I would get remunerated for all my hard work, I would work harder, and never give up.

Do you think secondary kids should get paid for going to school. I think they should because they could save it for college. Almost 62 percent of high school students can’t afford to go to college. If they got paid they would keep up their grades so they could get extra money. But you. Also have to be careful because they may use it for drugs or alcohol.

The general argument made by Arianna Prothero in her work, “Does Paying Kids to Do Well Actually Work,” is that incentives may help boost students to come to school and learn so they may earn a further education. More specifically, Arianna believes that financial incentives have a huge impact on students rather than little rewards. She writes “Incentives are also more likely to work for students who need a little improvement to earn a passing grade.” Schools that use incentives have a better chance of teaching more kids as well as more of them learning what they really need to at school; new material.

The teachers are seen as the managers, and the classmates are like colleagues. Many studies have shown that people will work harder when they're getting something out of it. Money is a great motivator when needing or wanting to buy something. Paying students for good grades has proven to motivate them to work harder and get even better

The general argument made by Arianna Prothero in her work, “Does Paying Kids to Do Well in School Actually Work?”, is why students should be paid as an initiative to go to school. More specifically, she argues that students need a reward for going to school. One example, for having good attendance, the principal put the students in a raffle and two individuals would win a car. She writes, “... economists started looking earnestly at how educators could leverage incentives, such as gift cards, scholarship money, and in some cases cold hard cash, to motivate students to go to school and perform better on tests.” In this passage, the author is suggesting that schools give more incentives to students with good grades and attendance. Although,

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.

Although she has many good points, I disagree. Students should not get paid to have good grades and to stay in school. I do believe that students should get good grades and stay in school, but should not receive payment for something most students are already forced to do. Let's face it, what student, on the brink of dropping out, is going to stay in school just to earn ten measly dollars. Some say only students who acquire good grades should receive payment. So with that taken into account, there are many questions that need to be asked, such as what grade point average is considered to be good, how much will students be getting paid for this certain grade point average, how will students get paid, cash, check, debit card, lunch money, and the list just continues on. A study conducted by Harvard Crimson showed that although when students were provided financial incentives to score well on tests, the students being paid actually did not do any better than the students

Sports are not everything, they get too much focus in high school. This is because the athletes get special treatment in high school and college. They get paid more than most other jobs. Also athletes are idolized. Parents put money in their kids sports than their school.

Merit pay is a term describing performance related pay. Its primary focus is used for helping teachers improve their performance by learning from each other. Merit Pay can take the form of a bonus or a permanent teacher salary increased. This motivates many teachers because they believe they are being evaluated more fairly than traditional evaluation. Merit pay is important to study because it’s a one of the most controversial issue in the field of education and it does have an effect on school finance in the future. We should be concerned about using merit pay in our school system because most professions offer bonuses and salary increases for their exemplary employees why should the education profession be any different? Shouldn’t we try and use incentives as we do with our students to motivate teachers to give their very best in educating our future leaders of tomorrow. Merit pay will recruit and retain some of the nation’s brightest mind. Many people who have the capability to teach our students refused to do so due to teacher pay but with merit pay many of these individuals may consider working in the education profession.

The general argument made by author Arianna Prothero in her work, Does Paying Kids To Do Well In School Actually Work? Adults have used bribes or rewards on children for many years to attempt to convince children to try harder in school and even pay children when they do good in school. More specifically, Arianna Prothero argues that educators could leverage students to keep doing good in school by giving them gift cards or scholarship money and even in some cases cold hard cash. She writes, “if you’re miles away from it, no matter how much effort you put in, the odds of reaching are still low, so why bother?”

Would students be able to improve their grades if they were getting paid? Money is a great reward for most students and it could possibly have a long term effect on students. They are always wanting their grades to be improved and then they would have more of a reason to study for test and quizzes if they were getting paid do go to school. Students would be focused at school if their was money to be made by going to school. Teachers would also not be stopping as often because of students getting of track. I believe students would improve their grades if they were getting paid because, Money could have a long term effect, and more student could need a little more motivation