As one of my friends who would prefer to remain nameless pointed out — school is somewhere that it needs to be safe to fail to some degree. Scholarships that make failure catastrophic break scholars. They are corrupting influences and need to be negotiated with as such.
Rachel Greenstadt @ragreens
20 Dec 2018
Students, please don’t send me email asking me to change your grade so you can keep your scholarship. “I want to help someone defraud a scholarship” is not an acceptable choice in the “why I changed this grade” form.
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Replying to @dakami
“Drawing from hundreds of studies, Kohn demonstrates that people actually do inferior work when they are enticed with money, grades, or other incentives.” alfiekohn.org/punished-rewar…

Dec 20, 2018 · 2:18 PM UTC

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Replying to @bilcorry
people also do inferior work when insufficiently supplied with money, grades, and other incentives (including merely social appreciation). The direct source of motivation has a measurable effect, but indirect distractions are measurably harmful.
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money can be the proximate driver in presence *or* absence. Same with grades, etc
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