Students should be paid for their marks at school

If students earned money for their efforts based on their mark in each subject, this would result in the students paying more attention in class and therefore higher marks. This system would work by having the student’s first percentage from an assignment or in-class assessment being the percentage they get of the total amount of money they can get. After the initial mark, the amount of money they earn is from the averages of the overall work. For example; if Daniel was to get 79% for an assignment, he would get 79% of the total amount of money available. If Daniel then got 65% for another assignment/assessment, then the money he would earn would be the average of the results; he would get 72% of the money available.
Each assignment or assessment would be worth different amounts both in money and percentage of overall year mark. For example; if an assignment was worth 10% of the student’s overall mark, then that mark would have a maximum of $100; so in other words multiply the percentage by 10. This means the maximum amount of money a student could ever earn would $1000 after the whole year; 100% x 10. This system would come into play when the students get to year 8 or 13 years old.
The usefulness of this to the government and schools across Australia is that they would have higher attendance, better attention in class, higher results from the students and better respect for teachers. The usefulness for the students is that they have an incentive to study harder, pay attention and increase their work ethics. This will also give them a better grasp on time management and give them a sense of ‘earning their own money’. This will prepare them for what it’s like to have a job and that you get paid for the work you do, as my father told me “You only get out what you put in”.