re: Paying your kids for good grades

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The more that's posted about modern parenting on the OT, the more faith I lose. No way my parents would have given us that much cash for grades - at most my sister and I would be rewarded with being able to pick out the restaurant we ate at on a Friday night then get dessert after.

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Yes!

To be fair, this was all As for the year, not just one report card. But still.

My wife and I have an expectation that our kids will do our best on assignments, meet deadlines, and be prepared for tests. Just doing that almost guarantees straight As in today's schools. My daughter had to quarantine for COVID exposure earlier this year. The day she went back she had to take a test that she did not have all of the material and made a 72. It pissed her off. I didn't have to say anything.