To start, nobody is at all sure if it will actually work. Mr. Fryer has himself said that "the jury is still out" about whether cash incentives cause middling pupils to improve.
Think of the parents who, rather than exert strong discipline over their vegetable-averse child, pay him $100 each month to choke down his brussel sprouts.
Similar monsters are birthed through an educating strategy that pays pupils to do that which is legitimately expected of them.
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