Are you giving Financial rewards for GCSE passes? And if so how much?

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DD1 tells me the going rate is £50 for an A* but I think she's trying to fleece me.

I can't believe some of these amounts.

Re paying for sporting achievement we end up paying out if ours take 5 wickets or score 50 runs in junior or 100 in adult cricket. We have to buy the whole team a can or a bar of choc after the match. The seniors have to buy a 'jug' (beer or cider). It doesn't happen that often with our lads!

I cannot believe what people are saying .The GCSE grades are for their own benefit not yours!! way to create an immature ,dependent young person if you ask me!

And paying them for scoring 50 runs??.
It sounds to me as if a child's success is something to boost the parent's ego!

spiderpig.......It's their team mates who get a can of pop or a mars bar ie the other 10 players! (when someone in the team take 5 wickets or scores 50 runs). Hardly megga bucks. So anyone who does well has to treat the whole team. When they are 18 they will buy the 'jug' not me. It has nowt to do with my ego.

We rewarded last week ... before the results were out ... day in London with theatre and some spending during the day

We rewarded effort as that matters more to us than results

Then went out for a family meal at the restaurant of her choice on Thursday evening

A family we know award a Mars bar for doing well in exams (and a fun size one if they have not done as well as they should have) It is a tradition from dad who got a mars bar for passing his o levels back in the time when people had little money to spare

I can remember my mum taking the letter with my O level results into the factory where she worked to show them off. I was so I really didn't want anyone to know I'd passed any especially my old school friends who had started work at 15.

Took my DD (16) out for a really good lunch after she received her results. More exams to come. The grades are the reward for work done - this will differ widely from one student to another. Some will sail through and get a string of A*s with little effort, others will toil and struggle to get any passes at all. (Gritting teeth for next year's results and hoping that as we live in Scotland, she will go to a Scottish university)