Should Students Get Paid For Good Grades

Do you get good grades? If so, do you get rewarded for those perfect grades? Do you get rewarded with things that you want or do you just get a pat on the back from mom and dad? Let’s say that for every A you get, your school gives you a big chunk of cash. Would you be more determined to get good grades or would you not care and just keep on not studying and preparing for test. Most kids would want to study more to get that big wad of cash that was offered to them for free without any work being done. But what if statistics show that more than half American students grades don’t change when they are bribed from a wad of cash. You’d probably stop there because you know that the chances of your grade improving are very low. A recent study conducted

It is often argued that getting paid for good grades is beneficial in the long run. One cannot deny that keeping the knowledge you learned as you grow is beneficial for you. However, getting paid for the good grades will not learn you anything, it is immediately lost and forgotten. For instance, a study done by Education Endowment foundation admits, “the use of incentives had little "direct impact" on pupils' ability to learn and failed to actually improve their GCSE scores in core academic subjects, it emerged.” In other words, the use of money will not help the learning of the students. The use of incentives will not help the kids be more motivated to learn and to get better grades, it actually makes them lazier so their test results fail to move up an inch. The same study adds, “cash incentives generally led to "no significant improvements in GCSE results". Basically, the learning impact from the incentive doesn’t help their scores or help them in the long run. Usually when a kid is bribed with money they jump up and down until they get it, but for grades kids don’t care enough or aren’t determined enough to try hard to get the money, it decreases their effort. Lastly, a certified financial planner in Mesa, Ariz named Neal Van Zutphen admits, "The downside of using money as a motivator is that it discourages true learning and changes the purpose for learning," In other words, Neal argues that the students education doesn’t help them at all as they grow and learn more things. What the kids learn travels in one of their ears and out of the other ear, meaning that they don’t remember anything that was taught to them and all is forgotten. So, when they get older and they need to remember something they don’t remember what was taught a while back and it doesn't help them with what they are doing. Getting bribed with cash only makes