There are both
incentives (benefits) and disincentives (costs) that make students go to school
and not go to school. For example, the incentives are gaining participation
points, not getting yelled by parents or Ms. Pamela, and gaining knowledge. By
gaining participation points, the strongest incentive for getting students to
attend school, students can get higher grades by just attending the classes,
and most teachers give around five to ten percent of participation. This
motivates me to go to classes to get free easy points. However, there are also
disincentives. For me, the disincentives are not having enough time to hang out
with friends outside the school, not having enough free time to fool around or
play, having a lot of work to do, and not being able to go outside the school
to eat lunch. Moreover, we even get punishments from not attending school. We
might be sent to the office or parents have to come to the school.
I believe some
people’s behaviors change due to the incentives given at PAS, but some people
just don’t care about anything that’s related to school.
In the video
of “Incentives for Perfect Attendance,” the school’s goal is to get students to
attend classes by giving laptops to perfect attendance students because
sometimes half of the students don’t come to school. Moreover, the school needs
to meet some requirements to get state funding. PAS, however, doesn’t have the
same incentives, because it’s a private school. Therefore most of us are able
to afford their own laptops and the school won’t get any funding from the
government if no students are left behind the classes or having good
attendance.
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