Dysfunctional Incentive System

“Do I get a reward for going to school?” asked a student from the Vons Middle School. “ You can get a reward, but only if you get good grades,” answers the student’s parent. Students usually get awards for good grades, but what parents don’t know is that paying a child can lead to a number of problems. It can create a dysfunctional incentive system in which students will forfeit their intellectual integrity, long term motivation to study conscientiously, and create an unsustainable promise from cash poor schools. In other words, paying students is a horrible idea because it tempts students to cheat, robs their motivation to study in the long term, and can bankrupt schools that have little money.

First of all, schools should not pay students
Edward Deci says, “Most children are by nature motivated to learn.” By paying kids, students will substitute their natural instincts to learn with a dysfunctional incentive system. Carol Dweck claims, “... paying students only helps them in the short run.” This can lead to decreased interest in learning. While paying children may help in the short term, in the long run, students will work only when schools increase their pay rate. Like a drug, they will need more in order to sustain the same feeling. To sum up, kids will ultimately lose natural motivation in
Although it might help students it will only help in the short term, but in the long run students start to lose motivation and they will demand for more money to get motivated. They may also cheat. Also, when schools are paying students they also have to pay the teachers and the teachers might ask for more if they have a tougher class. This will cause the school to lose a bunch of money and when they lose money the school starts to ‘die’. In other words paying students for good grades won’t last long because eventually they will lose their motivation in learning and schools might start to lose more and more money. After the short term kids will start to ask for more money to get motivated. For the reason above, schools should not pay students for good