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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject: Article: Parents offer kids pay for good grades |
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Parents offer kids pay for good grades
Sure, learning is its own reward. But some kids respond best to cash. Andrew Waller's grades soared when his parents started offering $5 for A's and $4 for B's.
Reagan Hawkins, a high school teacher in Nederland, Texas, has had students tell him they will get a new car for A's. Their parents downgrade the deal to a used car if they get B's.
Even kid-friendly companies grant report-card rewards. Krispy Kreme offers a free doughnut for each A (no more than six per student.) Crown Theaters gives out two free movie tickets for straight A's (all B's is worth a medium popcorn.) Sbarro recently offered kids a free pizza slice and a soda for good grades, if they said the secret phrase: "A's and B's -- pizza please!"
By BEN FELLER, AP via Yahoo!News (August 12, 2006)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060812/ap_on_re_us/paying_for_grades |
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huffdaddy
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: Re: Article: Parents offer kids pay for good grades |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
Even kid-friendly companies grant report-card rewards. Krispy Kreme offers a free doughnut for each A (no more than six per student.) |
I love the irony. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| offering $5 for A's and $4 for B's. |
My folks only gave me a quarter for each A. Do you think I can sue for the other $4.75? |
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cosmicgirlie
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:28 am Post subject: |
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Yes, another questioning parenting style. Rewarding kids in that manner will set them up for continual failure.
I was rewarded for school work, but not for every A or B I recieved, just for passing the grade each year was enough for a year end reward. My parents showered me with praise if I came home with A's and B's.....or C's and D's for that matter--just as long as I was happy with my learning and understood that I was responsible for my learning. They encouraged me but my reward came from the satisfaction that I WANTED to learn not I was BRIBED to learn. Real learning takes place when you want to learn not when you are forced to learn. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:31 am Post subject: |
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Rewarding kids in that manner will set them up for continual failure.
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I agree. Making a 7 year old wait 20 years for the education to pay off is a much better strategy. |
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cosmicgirlie
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:06 am Post subject: |
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Rewarding kids in that manner will set them up for continual failure.
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I agree. Making a 7 year old wait 20 years for the education to pay off is a much better strategy. |
I never said they had to wait 20 years for the education to pay off....all I said was rewarding a kid--especially a 7 year old--all the time will set them up for failure, more so if a monetary amount is attached. A child will never have an inner sense of satisfaction. They will always be looking for that dollar amount attached to everything they do. I do mean everything. You're creating a monster if you keep paying them off for good behaviour.
You can reward a child with a good job but attaching a dollar amount is never a good idea. |
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