Some students have better rewards than others. Junior Kendra Gray receives rewards from both her father and her mother, who are divorced. For students whose parents do not establish a rigid motivational system, there are other incentives to perform well. Junior James Gimourginas cites his car insurance company as a motivator. The company rewards good grades with lower rates, because it believes that students are more responsible if they perform well academically.
Parents can also be creative in their tactics.
Freshman Eli Roth says that besides the usual lecture he receives from his parents for bad grades, they often post a list of private schools, tell him to select one of them, and threaten to send him to it if his grades do not improve. Although they are never really serious, Roth says the thought is scary enough.