Imagine this. You, the principal, have been paying students for good grades. One of the secretaries walk in and say: “Principal?” they ask. Looking up from your desk, you reply “Yes?” While biting her lip, she finally breaks the news “We’ve run out of money to pay the students.” It’s a highly debated topic on whether children from elementary up to high school should be paid for good grades. However, they certainly should not. Simply, there is not enough money to go around. Schools will become more of a business transaction, as well as children not being able to develop their intrinsic motivation. Therefore, children should not be paid for good grades.
To begin with, it’s highly unlikely that there will be enough money to go around to all good grade earning children in the USA. A study shown by the Annie E. Casey Foundation estimates there are around 74.2 million youths under the age of 18 in the United States. As there are 74.2 million youths in the US: how will all children that earn good grades be paid? This will cause incredible amounts of money to be invested, simply to say, filling a children or teens wallet. Meanwhile, there are charities, organizations, and government branches that could make much better use of this money, saving the planet, stopping crime, but they’d not …show more content…
Children also being more focused on enrich their own wallets, rather than developing a love for learning. As said by Amy McCready, a specialist and counselor to raising children, states in her post in the NYT website: “If the reward for money is for good grades, it send the message that working hard in school is too enrich your wallet rather than your mind.” This quote shows the perfect example. This could also start to make children feel entitled to a payment. For example, if a child dislikes Language Arts, what if they demand an increased amount for a good grade? You can now see, how paying children would affect the
To begin with, it’s highly unlikely that there will be enough money to go around to all good grade earning children in the USA. A study shown by the Annie E. Casey Foundation estimates there are around 74.2 million youths under the age of 18 in the United States. As there are 74.2 million youths in the US: how will all children that earn good grades be paid? This will cause incredible amounts of money to be invested, simply to say, filling a children or teens wallet. Meanwhile, there are charities, organizations, and government branches that could make much better use of this money, saving the planet, stopping crime, but they’d not …show more content…
Children also being more focused on enrich their own wallets, rather than developing a love for learning. As said by Amy McCready, a specialist and counselor to raising children, states in her post in the NYT website: “If the reward for money is for good grades, it send the message that working hard in school is too enrich your wallet rather than your mind.” This quote shows the perfect example. This could also start to make children feel entitled to a payment. For example, if a child dislikes Language Arts, what if they demand an increased amount for a good grade? You can now see, how paying children would affect the