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External motivators or rewards are a part of life, not just education. Many companies provide bonuses to employees for meeting certain performance goals.  It works for adults -- why not for kids who may not yet be able to see the reward of education itself?  

Like Hanif said, if an incentive helps a student to buy-into education, then it is one less student who is going to drop out of school and one more student who can be a productive member of society.  

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