Incentives to Attend School

Incentives used by the schools in the videos are to encourage students to attend school more, study and strive for graduation, and in general increase the motivation for students to work harder. Incentives is the reward that one gets for doing an action and the higher the reward, the more motivation it has against the cost of doing something, whether it be financial cost or energy cost. There's a high school in Texas that gives a student a free car if he has perfect attendance. That is truly amazing because I am a person of almost perfect attendance and by now I should have four cars already. I really like that plan. However, I don't think it's wise for the school because this will mean that for students to have perfect attendance, the benefit SHOULD outweigh the cost of a car for it to be a good decision, which I doubt. The PAS approach is of a different direction. Instead of giving incentives that are rewards for perfect attendance, PAS gives punishment for people that are late to school, or people who doesn't have a perfect attendance. I don't like this approach but of course this is a lot more cost effective because it kind of gets the job done. The goal however, are the same, and is to try to get people to go to school on time. However, I think the reason they implemented this approach, (Texas and Massachusetts), is because they have way too many people missing school. In the more academic focused environment, PAS uses punishment on late policy, which is a little bit extreme in my opinion.