By: Meera Dolasia
Source: Web
11/26/2011
Have some school decided to give cash to do well in tests? Indeed they have. In several school in Virginia Beach, they have tested students to see what would happen, the result where quite encouraging. But this cash is not offered to kids in every grade. Only high school students who are motivated enough to enroll for AP (Advanced Placement) courses, take the test. Also, not everyone who takes the test will get the money, only students with a score 3 and above, being 5 the highest. Only those are rewarded. Even if $100USD seems a lot, most of id is used for paying to take the exams. The students usually end up with about $20USD per test. Even if this might seem a bit stupid it still seems to be working.
I think that this is really cool and does encourage students to work better, but on the other hand the money they get also encourages them to buy foolish things and do bad things in school. I think this would help the teachers in many ways to get students to study and to be payed more. The more the Students get better in school, the more people will here about it, and the more parents will put their children in the school.
As a teacher, for every test that I have to take for my teacher certification, I pay at least 75$. Isn't that crazy? You are paying to put yourself through torture! I am not sure that I agree with paying students to do well. It should be something they want to do well, right? It's for their own future...
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