School Teachers and Sumo Wrestlers

Money makes the world go round. The study with the daycare and parents being fined is a prime example of people showing you there value in a hidden way. Any decent parent should have no problems picking their kids up from school on time. When the daycare added the $3.00 late fee, parents laughed at the price and even more parents were coming late, letting us know that there is a price for everything, even spending time with my kids. They feel like since they are paying a few that they should not feel guilty about being late. This is so wrong for a number of reasons. You are putting a value on time and that is a dangerous habit to form.

Teachers cheating in standardized tests was a shock to me. I would have never looked at it through this angle of an incentive. I would assume that the teachers would not teach and by doing this it would create job security for reinforcing the same material over and over until it was mastered. The fact that a teacher would cheat is a direct blow to themselves because they probably felt that their teaching was inadequate and that the kids should be compensated in some way and cheating is the best solution in their eyes.