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.

[sadolakced acid]

ehh.. it's like gambleing...

(this was a real experiment)
take two mice, and give them each a button.

one mouse when it pushes the button food always comes
the other mouse when it pushes the button sometimes a random amount of food will come.

let them have thier button food supplies for a week.
then disable the buttons.

after the first push with no food, the first mouse stops pushing the button.

the other mouse never stops pushing the button, even when food never comes.