prompted by another thread... who got £xxx for A level results?

[naswm]

I remember being so upset when my 'father' told me he had given his daughter £100 for each A level result she got.

Was this the norm? It would have been about 18/20 years ago

Seeing another thread about kids getting rewards for good reports brought this all back to me

Needless to say my 'father' has never given me a penny, for A levels, or for anything else for that matter - but that isnt the point of this thread!

If your partner/friend gets a new job do you not buy them a drink to celebrate? is this a bribe? or a reward?

and I'm not sure why you can't compare getting A levels to get a job to earn money, and getting a job to earn money.

Both are generally things you have to do (and sometimes don't like) in order to get something you need (money to live on)

Think abotu it nowadays we expect kids to go to shcool from 4 or 5 yrs old, they start having to sit tests from age of 7 and are ranked/singled out/ punished/ rewarded via school and home based on these.

Most of the time (except for those few who are HomeEd) kids have NO CHOICE whether to go to school or not, they have NO CHOICE which school to go to, they NO CHOICE in how to spend their day or the types of things they prefer doing - i'm not talking about subjects here most schooling is based on academic booklearning and some kids prefer running around and being outdoors to that. They even have very little choice about exactly what areas of study they can undertake within the narrow boundries of the education system.

I'm not saying its easy to get a brilliant job but as an adult you still have a good deal more choice than kids do. We do it for money and rewards why do we expect kids to do it for a bit of paper and the abstract concept that it might help them get a job in the future so they get some money (cos until they actually get a job it IS abstract)

I think any kid who gets through school with decent attendance and behaviuor, reasonable amounts of application and decent results (for their abilities) deserves a bloody good pat on the back and some form of tangible reward!

I dont' get why some people think its so awful when your 16 or 18 yr old comes home with a clutch of good grades (for them) to say "well done pet, you've worked hard and deserve a bit of a break/treat/holiday. Tell you what we'll pay for a week in Cyprus/new mobile/cash for a shopping trip"

My parents have always given monetary rewards for good results. They give their (primary school aged) grandchildren £10 for good school reports (they are always good), and they gave me and my sister money for our bacc (no A levels in this house) - I got 10,000 Belgian francs (1984).

I didn't get a thing. Afraid I rather looked down om kids in school whos parents rewarded tem like that.