Money = Good Grades? Options

[JlIaTMK]

Hm, so about a week ago in my second hour class, there was this boy talking about how he receives money for getting all B's in school. He also mentioned that he gets 10 dollars for each b he received and that if he received an a, he would get 20 dollars for that one grade.
Now, seriously, parents have to bribe their kids nowadays to get them to get b's and a's in school?
How piteous is this?

Please share your opinions.

[fameONE]

If the parents have moeny to spare then by all means they should do it. I believe that its a wonderful motivator to succeed in life. If you're promised a handsome bit of cash every six weeks just for good grades, then why would you intentionally become complacent and not take advantage of the opportunity?

I've been working since I was 15 years old. Actually, I've been working more than most kids at that age should while going to school and being involved in countless clubs and orgnizations. My parents never rewarded me for good grades. At times they could have, but, for the most part, they didn't. My monetary motivation was getting into a good school, qualifying for scholarships that had nothing to do with my race, doing well in college and graduating to lead a successful life.

My parents are forcing me to 'go on a leave of absence' from my job so I can focus on school during the first semester. With this, anything that can't be taken care of on campus through my general tuition, they will pay. No, I didn't get 200 dollars for straight As. But thats ok, my parents are going to have my back for a few semester so I don't epitomize the "broke college student."

[Spirited Away]

If the parents have moeny to spare then by all means they should do it.  I believe that its a wonderful motivator to succeed in life. If you're promised a handsome bit of cash every six weeks just for good grades, then why would you intentionally become complacent and not take advantage of the opportunity?

I'm sure some, if not most of you, have heard of such a thing as intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. Money is an extrinsic reward.

While it's true that most of us are focused on the extrinsic rewards of life as it appeases our physical needs, it is actually the intrinsic rewards that gives us peace of mind and the "warm-fuzzies" that help us retain our sanity in a world of insanity. The Job Market and our work place is, or can be, such a world.

What one is taught by receiving money for every good grade is that one can expect some kind of return for a job well done. Is that true for everything in life? Hell no. In fact, sometimes the good that you do may cause bad things to happen. Then what? Where's your reward?

What happens if parents can no longer afford to give the money a child has been habittually receiving for getting good grades? Some children may be indifferent, others disappointed, but there will be a number who will react quite strongly, perhaps to a point of boycotting good grades until the reward is met.

When someone is conditioned to expect a reward for everything he/she does a good job on, he/she is bound to have a big let down, if not several, in life.

And believe it or not, it's been proven that extrinsic rewards will make light of and distract you from intrinsic rewards. When this happens, what is there to drive your motivation? Imagine that your only motivation to live is for money....

I am speaking of rather extreme cases, but that is what happens when kids are brought up to love extrinsic rewards.