Submitted by Lourdes Andre (not verified) on February 8, 2007 - 02:27.
Emphatically, no incentives should be offered for academic performance! It's like paying your children for making their beds or cleaning their rooms. These are things that just need to be done for their own sake and the sake of society. In the case of beds, etc. the society is the immediate family. In the case of academic performance, I won't go the route of "learning for the pleasure of learning" although I have derived such pleasure but not as a K-12 student. Children should learn to take pride in everything they do, regardless of the external/material rewards. If we start offering material incentives, we undermine that pride, that sense of accomplishment, that understanding of cause (hard work) and effect (recognition, acknowledgement, advancement, success); the things that will make them contributing members of our society.
Emphatically, no incentives
Submitted by Lourdes Andre (not verified) on February 8, 2007 - 02:27.
Emphatically, no incentives should be offered for academic performance! It's like paying your children for making their beds or cleaning their rooms. These are things that just need to be done for their own sake and the sake of society. In the case of beds, etc. the society is the immediate family. In the case of academic performance, I won't go the route of "learning for the pleasure of learning" although I have derived such pleasure but not as a K-12 student. Children should learn to take pride in everything they do, regardless of the external/material rewards. If we start offering material incentives, we undermine that pride, that sense of accomplishment, that understanding of cause (hard work) and effect (recognition, acknowledgement, advancement, success); the things that will make them contributing members of our society.