Students perform better in school when they are rewarded rather than punished. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

People are of the view that

children

will perform better in

school

when offered rewards than when

when

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punished. I completely disagree with

this

. On the

one

hand, rewards are mostly reserved for outstanding performances or good behaviour. I cannot imagine how odd it will be for a pupil with bad behaviour to receive a reward. Aside from the act of not feeling right, the character of

children

is shaped during their

school

days and their brains quickly register what they see, so once they learn society smiles upon not well-behaved people, they will be encouraged to display unpleasant behaviours in

school

just to be rewarded too.

On the other hand

, by convention,

punishment

is reserved for those who go against the rules of society and it is no different from what happens at teaching institutions. Normally, wrong-doers even expect to be penalised. First of all,

punishment

brings shame and discomfort to offenders so it serves to deter them from repeating the same act again.

In addition

, it deters the other folks of the

school

as well. To illustrate

this

, I stopped littering at junior high

school

after I was made to sweep the whole

school

compound for dropping an empty bottle to the ground.

Secondly

,

punishment

grooms well-behaved students. To illustrate

this

, some

schools

in Ghana have a limit to which repeated acts of indiscipline by the same pupil will lead to

one

being permanently sacked from

school

. The outcome of

this

as known to parents and students alike is a bad record on

one

's file which can be retrieved years after they have left the

school

. The consequence is its effect on their employment status in adulthood. For fear of being unemployed even after attaining formal education, most students after receiving

one

punishment

change for the better.

Finally

, studies carried out by Sir Steve Wonder at various

schools

concluded that

schools

that discipline their

children

have several of them with good behaviours compared to those that

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Hence

, it is clear punitive measures are required in our

schools

to instil some discipline in the

children

.

To sum up

, it is evident that

children

are likely to be at their best when punished for wrong-doing.

Therefore

, I completely disagree with the fact that perpetrators of

school

law should be rewarded.