Cash for good grades
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March 18, 2010
Filed under Features
Interims and report cards fill some students with several different emotions throughout the students of Chapin High. Anxiety, carelessness, and fear are visible on some student’s faces. For others, GPA’s translate to ATM’s – interims and report cards provide not only praise and satisfaction, but an opportunity to get cash.
Parents who reward their children with money for good grades presents a win-win situation for some students, such as senior Jill Tyler. Tyler says, “If I don’t make good grades, I get grounded – but if I get A’s and B’s, I get paid. It’s pretty nice.” Households such as Tyler’s provide their children with incentive to succeed, and it certainly pays off.
Other students at Chapin High don’t receive a monetary reward for their hard work in school for several different reasons. Senior Danyelle Vitali says, “My parents don’t pay me for doing well in school. They consider it my responsibility to make good grades.” This belief is common in homes across Chapin – if the student fails, it is their GPA that is being affecting, not the parents’.
For Tyler and many other students, interim reports and report card rewards provide either an income or an additional income. For Vitali and others, means of payment must be found in other ways, such as an after school job or doing chores around the house. While most students strive for appeasement on the days that interims and report cards are issued, some students are provided with a little push – the promise of an extra twenty bucks in their wallet.
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