Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Topic 3: Incentives to attend school


After watching the video, we can see how do some schools provide great incentives in order to reach perfect attendance. Ironically, students should take responsibility to go to school everyday rather than alluring by great incentives.
In the video, some schools provide incentives of car, laptop or summer camp in order to motive students to go to school; economically, the strategy work out pretty well. By looking at the graph of incentives and attendance, we can see the higher incentives the more attendance. Even though using incentives can facilitate school to reach perfect attendance, schools still need to make sure students understand the obligation of going to school everyday. In P.A.S, to students, incentives can be hanging out with friends, having good grades in classes, and achieving goals. Those incentives are not really provided by school; however, we provide those incentives by ourselves in order to be motived to go to school. Interestingly, P.A.S offers effective incentives of kicking out students if they have no excuse on their absence. Even though P.A.S uses punishment as incentives for students to come to school, the incentive works out very well too. Most happily, our school can save a lot of money while teaching students the importance of coming to school. The school in video and P.A.S shared the same goal of reaching perfect attendance; however, they use different methods. P.A.S seems more intelligent about using strategy to control students attendance…

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