Topic 3: Incentives to Attend School

I think the students at a private school and a public school are actually quite different. Students at a local school can choose whether they want to attend school or not because they don't have to pay to go to school. On the other hand, students in private schools have to pay to get in, so either they know they shouldn't waste their parents' money or are forced by their parents. Therefore, I think these two different types of students have different incentives. At our school, our incentive for students is "if you don't come for blah blah blah days, then you will be kicked out from our school." A disincentive at school might be the lunch. Because the lunch is gross so perhaps some people don't want to come to school (not very realistic but may happen.) We don't really have any rewards for attending school as described in the video such as giving out laptops. It's either you come to school to learn or you don't come and waste your money (or not just even attend the school afterall). Sometimes I think that this is a bad incentive because students will slowly think that they are just coming to school to be here. They don't really enjoy what the classes are doing or teaching anymore. I mean, they are effective, don't get me wrong. It's just that people's minds and thinking are starting to corrupt slowly from this. For example, the late policy of sending people home when they don't arrive at 7:55 is pretty effective. Not many people are late now. However, I don't think students really understand why. Why they should be on time. Why they are doing this. They are just doing this because they are either yelled by Pamela several times or by their parents. Therefore, in my opinion, different standards of schools produce different incentives for students.