Express your views either for or against the statement prizes give a pupil the incentive to improve his grades. In 250 - 300 words. (Minimum is 250)(15 points)
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As a parent, at one point or another you may have found yourself telling your child something along the lines of:
“If you get an ‘A’ on your Biology test, I’ll take you shopping,”
Or: “Clean your room and you get to play video games for an hour.”
Now, on the face of it, rewards for good grades seem like a win-win situation on both sides: you ensure that your son or daughter are keeping up academically, and they get rewarded for their actions. And providing an incentive for good grades is not exactly a new invention: it’s probably been going on as long as parents have been getting report cards.
However, many psychologists think that paying for grades, or providing other extrinsic rewards for academic performance is a mistake, setting the stage for poor attitudes towards school and actually a decrease in academic performance over time.