[PeteB570]

PARENTS?

I pay my kids for good grades. I pay ‘um “A” money and they like the feel of that cold hard cash come report card time.

[shoutingandpointing]

“School is the best paying job you will ever have in your entire life. You'll never have another job that will GIVE you the wages, vacation time, and autonomy—FREEDOM—that being a student does.” I have been paid a lot of dollars for my labor over the course of my lifetime, most of which have gone in one hand and out the other. What I "got paid" for going to school stays with me to this day and pays the kind of dividends I can use.

That is the mantra the shoutingandpointings have grown up with. The pay scale for grades is as follows:

Each “A” = $5
Each “B” = $1
Bring home a “C?” Not a problem. You do “average” work. Nothing wrong with being average: “meets minimum expectations.” HOWEVER, I have never received a bonus for average work—”meeting minimum expectations”—and neither will you. "Get" a "C" “C” in any class means you do not get a bonus for the “As” and “Bs” you "earned" in the others.

No weekly “allowance” here, either. That money goes into the college savings fund. Every now and then, I just slide them a few bucks here and there, maybe buy them something I know they want (as opposed to need) because I caught them doing something above and beyond the call of basic human decency and Christian Charity.