Should Students Be Paid Students In High School?
There are some schools in the US that pay their students to do well. They will pay them with cash or incentives if they do well. This is a good idea because it not only keeps the student off the streets but, they get paid for doing their “job.” in the article i will discuss why this is a good idea
Students have been told for years, probably as young as 3rd or 4th grade, that being a student is your job. Well that is completely true because you have to do work assigned by your boss (the teacher) and you go there every weekday for 7 or 8 hours a day, like a real job does. Almost every job that an american preforms is paid by cash money for doing that job. If they don't do their job then they get demoted or fired, no longer receiving cash. If they do good then they get a raise which means more money. This should be the same for a student. The better they do on their academics, the more money they should get and, the worse they do then the less money they get. As you see, being a student is a job and and students should be paid for doing that job because it's just like a real job that parents do.
Being paid for doing well will prevent future crime and keep kids off the streets and in the classroom or at home studying. If a student is at home studying for an …show more content…
Well, in a New York Times article it states that in a school in bronx “fewer than 60 percent of students passed the state math exam and fewer than 40 percent did so in reading.” As you can see, without paying students, more and more students will become unmotivated and go out to the streets because they have nowhere else to go. Others who disagree with this might also say that you won’t get paid in college so there is no point in getting paid now. Well if you do well in school through high school then you have a good chance of getting a scholarship for a good
Students have been told for years, probably as young as 3rd or 4th grade, that being a student is your job. Well that is completely true because you have to do work assigned by your boss (the teacher) and you go there every weekday for 7 or 8 hours a day, like a real job does. Almost every job that an american preforms is paid by cash money for doing that job. If they don't do their job then they get demoted or fired, no longer receiving cash. If they do good then they get a raise which means more money. This should be the same for a student. The better they do on their academics, the more money they should get and, the worse they do then the less money they get. As you see, being a student is a job and and students should be paid for doing that job because it's just like a real job that parents do.
Being paid for doing well will prevent future crime and keep kids off the streets and in the classroom or at home studying. If a student is at home studying for an …show more content…
Well, in a New York Times article it states that in a school in bronx “fewer than 60 percent of students passed the state math exam and fewer than 40 percent did so in reading.” As you can see, without paying students, more and more students will become unmotivated and go out to the streets because they have nowhere else to go. Others who disagree with this might also say that you won’t get paid in college so there is no point in getting paid now. Well if you do well in school through high school then you have a good chance of getting a scholarship for a good