Now, they are paying kids to perform well. The incentive becomes the goal, not learning. And interest in school eventually wanes, he said. But the principals who are piloting this cash giveaway see it differently. Generally, we are a materialistic society.
Money is very good to motivate students.
Ken Pritz, the principal at West Hernando, wishes it were not so. But he knows money talks. I have my own mixed feelings about that because I'm a self-motivated person. Neither principal could say whether the incentives helped. All of the scores were near the state average.