He got 39 correct out of 50, which resulted in a 7, which is the highest grade on a test in the Diploma programme. In the past week we have paid Junior $200 for his school test results.
The contract we drew up last school year and which is still valid where we wrote it down the terms of what we would pay for the various results at school was due to several factors. Junior wanted to earn his own money and I wanted him to understand that education pays. To make him understand this, both myself and the world's most perfect husband realized that the offspring must be compensated here and now. That the education will pay off in the future in the form of a well-paid job is completely uninteresting to a 16-year-old who lives in the present.
Although it is very costly for us from time to time, this is among the best things we have done in terms of his schoolwork motivation. I am incredibly grateful for his results so far this school year and hopefully that continues, but if I know the offspring correctly, these 2 tests were more the exception than the rule.
As a mother of a boy, you take what you get. 😉
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