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Yeah, instead of giving trophies with no monetary value, give cash rewards after all this cultivates the element of entrepreneurship in high school students. After all they will be soon off to college, with rare knowledge that whatever you want you earn it.
The culture today is different; the current X generation is a generation of adrenaline freaks. If they want something they want it now and in cash. In my elementary schooling, for my good performance, I was always given dishes and salad bowls that suited my mother, more than me. Once I got the bowls, my mother knew they were his not mine and all this time I would be broke. What moved me was money, it made me happy, I would walk out go on an unhealthy food feeding spree and spend on chewing gum. Anything with sugar was fine with me. Cash rewards for high school students performing well really rocks.

Money might be the root of all evils but once it is used a motivator it works magic and brings out extremities. Picture this people kill for money, and others nearly die looking for it. There is no feeling powerful than a high school teenager loaded with cash for performing well.
The high school culture today, hails those dudes with money while those with brains are derided as geeks and wimps. Here is the solution why not load these clever wimps with cash when they do well. The geeks will buy expensive attires; the cheerleaders won't shun them anymore, for the more masculine but stupid wannabe football players who get attention for money, leather jackets, and bikes.
For once, being clever and bright in high school will be cool. After all, the so called clever wimps and geeks will have an equal chance at pretty girlfriends plus their ratings and popularity will go up. I can draft a policy paper on that if paid. Pay them!

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