Question

Exercise 614 Your class has been discussing whether receiving prizes for doing well at school is a good idea.Here are two comments from your classmates:Prizes are fair because everyone has the same chance of winning.There are better ways of getting students to work hard.Write an article for your teacher, giving your views.

Answer 1

Answer:

I do not think giving away prizes for doing good in school are fair to students. There are many students that could be driven by getting a prize for doing well in school, but there would still be many students that wouldn't care about the prizes and still put in the same amount of effort, that they were putting into their school work before. So with this the kids that would be putting in a lot of effort would be getting more prizes, than the kids that aren't putting in as much effort. When the kids that are putting in effort getting prizes, more and more kids would get less motivated because there could me one or two kids that keep on winning the prizes, so the kids would loose motivation because of this. This is why I think that giving prizes to kids at school for their hard work is unfair.