Paying Students Get Good Grades Essay

Paying students to make good grades will not only improve class grades (change reason to higher chances of getting into colleges?), it will help low-income families and help students start thinking about their financial future. Paying students will help grades go up because they will be getting money for it. Although Sam Goller says, “A child’s responsibility is to go to school, to study, to get good grades (“Praise”).” some students simply cannot find the motivation to study, or to try to get good grades. Some people do not do well in school, but excel in athletic activities. Paying them will help them find reason to study and be more prepared for tests. Alize Cancel said, “It made me want to study more because I was getting paid. (“LEARN-&-EARN”)” Should kids just get paid for going to school? No. They should be paid for getting for A’s and B’s for the grades that they worked hard on. While yes, some kids are naturally good at school and make good grades without any reward besides a “good job”, not every student should be held up to that standard. At MS 343 in The Bronx, the seventh graders got 37.3 points higher than the previous year (“LEARN-AND-EARN”). At Homosassa, if you do not get the grade, you do not get paid.

Under-privileged students tend to have a higher rate of dropping out of school. Reasons vary…but mostly the cause is because their families need them to go out and get a job so they can help support their family. Because of their immediate need for money, they don’t care how little it pays, but they work full time and don’t have the time or money for school. Cash incentives will help these families. Not only will they have money and still be able to have their kids stay in school, if the kids keep up with the good grades, they can go on to do incredible