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Schools to kids: "We'll pay you if you study harder"


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Schools, under pressure to boost student achievement, are offering incentives — field trips and cash, for example — to motivate students.

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A very slippery slope ... it's one thing for parents and grandparents to give out dimes and dollars for good grades every quarter, but quite different to institutionalize that behavior within school walls.

[I'd opine a bit more, but my wife just offered me two bucks to take out the garbage ... can't pass that up!]
edmubnd

5 responses // Schools to kids: "We'll pay you if you study harder"

  • This would work for me when i was in school.
    pigmonkey
  • This is going to backfire.
    milkradio
  • There's a genuine risk in providing incentives to apathetic students, but it could possibly work.
    In my experience there are several brilliant minds out there with outer interests than the ones provided by the school environment; encouragement is sometimes needed; the seeds must be sowed.

    However, the downside to this "plan" are the cynics: I don't think it would've worked for me; or the innumerable cynics out there who have little trust towards the "government of academics". For one, I'm much to analytical for blatant agenda pushing when it comes to my academic life: I would've noticed the implications...but then again I don't know what could've been. :)

    Who knows.
    JaetheFirst
  • One potential backfire: the kids that start to perform better and study harder get paid in cash, but then they immediately get shaken down by the class bullies ...

    Maybe it would be better if the rewards were given in private (after class, in the mail, etc.).
    edmubnd
  • How about we just teach our kids more and have our government actually support our schools and teachers?
    shroomfairy

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