...you ask them what to do nowadays. The main cause of that might be because you are willing to reward them with money for getting good grades and now that you've said that, your child may think they can earn money by asking for money for every good deed they do. Personally, I don't think paying your child just because of good grades is a good idea. It can lead to problems about school. For example, it can increase the amount of stress, it can affect your child's natural enthusiasm to learn or be educated. Here are my reasons why I think paying your child for good grades isn't one of the best ideas. Initially, parents shouldn't pay their children due to high levels or issues or stress. According to the NEA article it states, "Many teachers, also paying students for good grades leads to practical problems in the classrooms, those of which include pressure to inflate grades...
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...College Athletes Get Paid? College athletes should be paid for playing at the college level. This topic is interesting to me because it has been a debatable topic for a long time. College athletes deserve to get a pay check because they are still responsible to keep their grades up while playing and training for football. They work harder than the pros because they have more of a motivation to get to the higher profession than someone who is already there. They can use that money to help support their families. The coaches are getting paid but they don’t play a sport or endure in a sport. The NCAA is making a profit out of them. In all honesty, the college athletes are one of the most hardest working athletes that don’t get paid. College...
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...Compensation for Grades Coming home with stickers used to be satisfactory enough for children to do well in school; but now-a-days a pocket full of money seems to be the only reward. Inner city schools that have low- test scores use money as a way to boost test scores in order to receive the necessary funding. Paying for grades is manipulative, and contradicts the traditional method of learning, and also the resources the school systems are using come from the government and the resources are not there to pay the children. Therefore student should not be paid to their grades. Kids know they are being manipulated and lose interest in learning as soon as the rewards are withdrawn (Unknown). If students are only going to school for the money, they will eventually lose interest and find other ways to get the money. If teachers were doing their job well money would not be needed to motivate the children. There are workshops and other other that are offered to the teachers to keep the kids interested. If the methods that have been proven to work in other school around the state why would it not work in the inner city schools as well. Although teachers have notices a change in attitudes is the change for the better (Next). Parents are also manipulating the children for the benefit of the money. Parents who didn’t care if their student was coming home with a C are suddenly very interested when their children come home with a hundred dollars (Does). Children who live in poverty would...
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...When a mom or a dad promises a Nintendo 3DS to his/her child if he/she gets a good grade, the child gets motivated and works hard to earn good grades. This is one example of the reward system. In this generation, parents reward their students for “good” behavior so often that this practice is beginning to be questioned. Reward can be in any form like toys, gadgets, and money. Money is most desired among high school and college students who are in school. The application of this reward system is popular in scholastic concerns especially as to avoid the proliferation of low grades among students. If parents pay their high school students for good grades, the students won’t only earn good grades but also acquire more good grades, money management...
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...Kids should get paid to go to school or at least get an reward for there work. Not in money, gift card, or even bribes. Not all students are going to go to college or a trade school most are going to just work at a simple job. Students rewards should be separated into three parts the ones that are going to attend college, the ones that are going to trade schools, and the ones that are not attending either of them and just going into a job right away. Arianna P. does not give her opinion on if she agrees with students should be paid or not, she almost in the middle and i think most thing she said in her essay is right but i do not agree with how parents and even schools would pay students it make more sense to me if the schools would...
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...2015 Should college athletes get paid? Many people debate if college athletes should get paid. Yes, college athletes should receive some form of financial compensation. College athletes represent their university, while their university reap all the financial gain. College athletes are asked to uphold the highest standards while representing the school, which include, but not limited to getting good grades, playing to their full potential, and to present themselves in a respectful way in the community at all times. Gaming companies are allowed to use their likeness and the student will never see one penny. Is it fair that a college athlete has worked all their life to become the best of the best in their conference and although they are the ones that put in all the hard work someone else make all the millions? Coaches push their athletes to the max to be the greatest and to win them a championship. Coaches may not care about their player’s education because their players are allowed to miss up to a quarter of all class days during their spring semester. Sometimes coaches will cheat the system to assist certain players because they know if they do not make the grades or get into any sort of trouble outside the field, their star athletes will not be able to play in the Big Games. This is an important fact because some of the mishaps players get themselves into come from their lack of having money to do certain things. Critics do not like how some athletes are getting...
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...Students are Our Future Congratulations to the Senior Class of Taft High School, 2014. I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity to come and be your guest speaker. The speech that I am going to give today will influence your life in many ways. You have the choice of taking the following statements for granted or listening and follow these simple steps that I am going to give to you today. There are many ways students entering Pierce College will succeed in their academic performances and many ways to fail as well. I am going to discuss with you the process of failing at Pierce College and not being able to get to the place you are all expecting. A bad student behavior consists of poor habits, traits, characteristics, and academic performance. There can be many reasons to failing in college. One reason is that college is simply a big change from high school. Students who were once good students may find their grades slipping in college. There are many reasons why some students don’t thrive at a university and begin failing their courses and in my opinion these are the major reasons why they fail. Most of students do have a lower expectation of the workload that will eventually stress them out. I’m going to give you direction and guide to the way not to behave before class, during class and after class. Make sure you do not do any of the followings and prepare yourself for a good start in Pierce College. Before coming to class, students tend to not review their...
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...Have you ever talked to someone who said they actually enjoyed school? If you were to ask me that question, I would have to say not very many students said yes. This is because school isn't the place where most kids go to have a great time. You see all your friends and you get to hangout with them all day, but the work that comes along with it isn't always as enjoyable as your friends. This has come to the point where kids really don't want to go to school at all, so they're always in a bad mood when they're there. Have you ever asked yourself, "What could be done to make school a better place to go?" Well I have, and I have come up with a couple good solutions to this problem. Coming to school with a positive attitude for the day could be...
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...Do Teachers Deserve Better Pay Teachers do not just work from 8-3 with summers off, most arrive early, stay late, and take papers home to grade, while spending the summer preparing for the next school year. (Meador). For the longest time there has been a huge controversial topic on whether teachers deserve better pay or not. Something that needs to taken into consideration is that not all teachers are good teachers and the ones who have made an impact on students should be rewarded and recognized. At the end of the end the better teachers we have the better grades and happier students there will be. Teachers should be paid more because of the hard work they’ve put into leading the future leaders of the world as a career. We can not expect...
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...Guise”, Joanne B. Ciulla, argues that traits exhibited by today’s college students will be troublesome in the workplace. She begins her argument by stating that she is amazed to see her past students who were irresponsible changed into hard working employees with successful futures. She is rather delightful when she learns that her previous students are exceptionally good at their jobs. College students value the external rewards of work over learning for its own sake. A survey done on first year students attending the University of California, Los Angeles, showed that a majority of the students attended college to make more money. The way students participate in their studies further shows the reason why students are in a learning environment. College professors can get the idea of what type of person a student is just by seeing how students approach their studies. Ciulla states that many students believe that they are “Entitled to Do-Over.” This is when students receive their test or assignments and see that the grade they received is not what they want; a majority of them ask the teacher if there is any way to improve the score despite it being the final grade. Students will do whatever it takes to raise their grade even when they are aware that they do not deserve the extra points. They aren’t aware that they don’t deserve a higher grade. They just think they deserve higher because they simply re-do the assignment. Ciulla makes a reference to clock punching. “Clock Punching”...
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...Every single one of you get up in the morning, eat, and get dressed. But how many of you actually think about where your food and clothes comes from? Do you think of farmers and clothes designers or how about agriculture in general? There are many different types of jobs that involve agriculture like farming, veterinary, gardener, and teaching. Everyone has heard about all of these kinds of agriculture jobs but the one that people forget about is agriculture teachers. There are over 20,000 agriculture teachers just in the United States, and thats not even counting the ones that are also FFA advisors. (FFA.org) Although agriculture teachers have a very tight and demanding schedule that they have to work with throughout the year, they have a really exciting career because of the history of the job and what they do, the...
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...Paid to Play? Collegiate Sports have always been popular in society. Many people would argue that the things the collegiate athletes do is worthy of being paid to play their respective sports. Collegiate athletes should receive a minimum salary yearly for the hours of training, and how much they bring in revenue for their colleges and universities. Professional athletes today make an outstanding amount of money for running around, jumping, tackling, and knocking people out. The “minimum wage” for a professional athlete would be around one hundred thousand dollars per year, which in many cases is a healthy amount compared to other working citizens. Do these athletes receive too much money for what they do? Are they worth the millions of dollars they make for playing sports? There are many different arguments for these questions, but one question that should be asked is, how many of these professional athletes skipped out on going to college for a few years to better their education, just to make the big bucks? Some would say they can go back to school if they choose to leave early or in the early 2000s not attend college at all, and go straight to the professional leagues, but if given the opportunity to make millions of dollars and have all the luxuries they can get their hands on, what is the point of wasting time that they can be partying and having a marvelous life, and decide to take college class instead? Is there a way to entice the youth that going to college instead...
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...academic performances in fog city school district. Their behavior influenced other students to think that school is not their priority. The unhealthy study environment results the whole school district scored below statewide average scores on state reading and writing exam. We have to take initiative to try whatever we can to get our school and students back on track, and I think the PASS – Promoting Achievement and Student Success program will just does that. PASS is a rewards program that rewards outstanding students base on numerous categories such as attendance, standardized test scores, community service activities, following school code of conduct and Participating in school-sponsored extra-curricular activities. It will also reward quality teachers who worked hard for our next generation. This new program has presented its initial success in other cities. As a member of school board, I fully support implementing the program with exception of reward for standardized test scores. I have mix feeling on using incentive as a tool to improve students’ grades. I agree to award students who improved their G.P.A significantly. However, I disagree to use letter grades as a measurement on how much incentives they will receive. When we ready to introduce the new program to our students, each one of them will have a different starting point. If incentive will be distributed base on letter grade, 4.0 students only have to maintain what they were doing to earn the money and the incentive...
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...school. Holt describes firstly what happened to the students when they go to school, and what they want to do. Then, he takes the case of the teachers, and describes them. After that, Holt analyzes that when the students are in school, they are not feeling well because they can’t communicate and speak to each other; they are not social. At the end, he gives his own opinion to conclude the article, and make suggestions. In my opinion, I totally agree with John Holt that school doesn’t make better the students, and that we have to change it. The Jail For students who go to school, it is be out of the world, out of the society; school is like a jail. Holt describes, “In fact, he learns how to live without paying attention to anything going on around him.” This sentence shows that we are totally out of the world; nowadays, the world is a society, it is important to don’t be individual and just care about you, but in school, you have to be like that; individual and don’t help each other. For me, this is the truth. I take the example of my experiences in French schools, students can not even speak to each other, the teachers are very indifferent about the students, and sometimes the students can be resentful and drop out of school because of the teachers and how they are for the students. Some students try to do the best as they can, and some of them are not able to have a good level. The teachers think this is because of the students, but I think that the teachers...
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...based on their membership in a certain group or category. Education is separated by the three social class; low class, middle class, and high class. The three types of social classes would be low class, middle class, and high class. Unfortunately in our society the higher the class the easier it is to get education. That is because schools in richer neighborhoods tend to have a better education even though it is the same system. Not to forget they have the opportunity to go to private schools where the system is definitely better. Private schools care more about students; they make sure they do well and give them extra opportunity’s to improve themselves. These private schools are getting paid by the parents to provide their children with the better education. Schools in lower class areas have a bad reputation such as not caring about their students’ performance. That is the reason why the class average tends to be lower than middle or higher class students. The students’ performance does not only depend on the education system or the schools, but parents are also a big part in a child’s life. For instance even if the school was not good the parents should emphasize on the youngsters’ education. They must help them with their homework, as well as seeing their needs for schools such as getting them...
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