Growing up, I knew kids who were paid for their grades. An A was worth X amount, and a B was worth a little less, and so on. My parents briefly flirted with the idea of paying my siblings and I for our grades, but realised it didn’t really motivate us all that much. It was unnecessary in my case,
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