Should Students Get Paid For Grades

People should not pay kids for grades. There would be less money for things like field trips and other school activities. Also, money can’t buy smarts, motivation or school success. And they would not because they are interested in learning, they would be only be learning because they are interested in getting money. People should remember that paying kids for grades won’t help their motivation or school success now and it surely won’t help when they go to college and aren’t paid for their grades. This is an important topic because many people don’t understand and think that kids should be paid for their good grades. The significance of my claim is that 66% of people said that kids should be able to be paid for their grades and that they need
Many of these students aren’t on track to graduate from high school, much less go on to college. New York City’s Spark program (now in its second year), awards fourth- and seventh-graders cash for high achievement on a series of math and reading tests throughout the year. A fourth-grader can earn up to $250 a year, while a seventh-grader can earn up to $500 (Greatschools Staff, 2016). This is an example of how paying students for school would work. When asked how school field trips are financed, the largest percentage of respondents selected the option that indicated that parents are asked to pay part or all of the cost of trips (districts are required to lower the fee for needy families). About 28 percent of respondents noted that the district pays the entire cost of trips from the budget, while another 28 percent said that the district gets funding for field trips from outside sources, such as an education foundation (School Board Notes, 2012). This meaning that, with most schools
All of the positives about having a part-time job have one big caveat. Students cannot usually be employed more than 20 hours per week or their grades begin to suffer, they do less homework, and they are more likely to drop out (Gisler & Eberts, 2016). Your grades could suffer more if you were without a job than if you had a job during school. The busier you are, the more focused you become. Working really makes you more structured; you have a lot of things to do in a short amount of time, so it’s important to keep up with it all (Laskowski, 2009). So, if they get paid for grades and don’t get a job because you don’t have to, you won’t be structured as if you had a