Can a middle school ASB provide student incentives for educational achievement?
Question: A middle school ASB would like to provide student incentives in educational achievement. They would like to award one student within each grade level, per quarter, who achieves a G.P.A. of 3.5 or more for their quarterly grades. All students names within each grade level that achieves this G.P.A. would be put into a hat. One student would be randomly selected per quarter and awarded an IPod Nano, valued approximately at $150. This would be conducted for each grade level. Three prizes would be awarded to students per quarter. The entire year of awards would come to approximately $2,000. The principal would like to encourage students to try harder in their studies by enticing them with this award. Please advise us on this, if this appropriate or excessive or any other problems you foresee? Response: Because student body funds are to benefit students as a group and not individuals, awards generally are discouraged but are allowable as discussed below. However, questions often ar
