Students are students, and they should not get paid for their grades. This will put a price on cheating techniques and increases the reward for doing it. It also replaces the motivation of creating your future to greed. Peer tutoring, private tutoring, after school programs and other low cost student services will want a cut from the student since they are getting paid for it. It will create a stressful environment for the teachers by having to handle with more complaints on grading.
It will now be reasonable to cheat since now it will be rewarded. More people will start cheating to get better grades and more money. Students will think that the money is more valuable than a good education and higher pay later. Test answers will now have a value to the students, along with other cheating techniques.
This will also increase the stress on the teacher. There is already students that do discuss their grade with the teacher. With money at stake, they will complain more and more to change their grade. Teachers will be afraid of that or try to prevent the ambush of them, so they will grade easier. This inflation will cause the students to not learn from their mistakes or bad decisions as they would be a bad grade.
If getting good grades was financially rewarded, tutoring services would be in high demand. Just a asking a simple question or help from a friend will now be worth something and can now be legitimately charged. They are helping you achieve profit. It is only fair to share it with those who help you get their.
Students are getting more than their share out of schooling. They are getting a future. By paying them for their grades, you give them the wrong motivations early on and can increase materialism. Cheating would be more of an issue, since this would be a price for it. Tutoring and other help would not be free and the price for them would increase. Students should not get paid for their grades.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
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i see what your saying but I, a straight a student and my brother a b student) have experience with the fact the money can help students not necessarily for grades though have you thought about review and extra credit. extra credit and review can be huge fixes in the problem. the student would review with is parents and or the teacher if parents were not available and log review points by staying after hours reviewing and or studying they could earn money. Rather than giving money to posers it single out the students who either needed money or good grades the students who needed to pay bills could work on there grades to do so. So paying for good grades...no, paying for work and effort to get good grades...yes.
ReplyDeleteyes they should you should pay the students of west scranton intermediate 10 dollars for every good grade that they get in any class
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