Meanwhile here in Halton Erindale SS principal is under fire this hour as her school community came up with a relevant prize for teenagers showing excellent character development AND has over a 60% average.

The prize is for a new Camaro donated by a local dealer.

According to the Principal the board is ok with it, as are the school council who helped decide on the incentive program.

The bleedinghearts supporting character development of course are outraged that character and excellent achievement gets rewarded at all.

Welcome to the real world where in work you’re graded every day and reap rewards if you’re exceptional.

This is certainly heading in the right direction, and I agree completely with T. C. that in the real world, yes, it’s the hard work that usually reaps rewards, so why not teach the same to our children? 
However, every time I hear of good grades, I can’t help but think that with no provincial standardized tests, what does 60% mean; what does getting an ‘A’ mean?  Teachers and department heads write their own exams, so how do these tests reflect the curricula when the ministry never sees these tests nor sets guidelines or standards for them.
We all know that colleges and universities find highschool marks dubious.

>Welcome to the real world where in work you?re graded every day and reap rewards if you?re exceptional

Not in the world of public school teaching. Google “tall poppy syndrome.”  If your results are too much better than others’ you will be disciplined or neutralized in one way or another.

We have to perpetuate the myth that all schools, teachers and students are equal—not equal in human value or rights, but equal in achievement and outcome.