Topic 3: Incentives to attend school

After watching the video, we can see how do some schools provide great incentives in order to reach perfect attendance. Ironically, students should take responsibility to go to school everyday rather than alluring by great incentives.

In the video, some schools provide incentives of car, laptop or summer camp in order to motive students to go to school; economically, the strategy work out pretty well. By looking at the graph of incentives and attendance, we can see the higher incentives the more attendance. Even though using incentives can facilitate school to reach perfect attendance, schools still need to make sure students understand the obligation of going to school everyday. In P.A.S, to students, incentives can be hanging out with friends, having good grades in classes, and achieving goals. Those incentives are not really provided by school; however, we provide those incentives by ourselves in order to be motived to go to school. Interestingly, P.A.S offers effective incentives of kicking out students if they have no excuse on their absence. Even though P.A.S uses punishment as incentives for students to come to school, the incentive works out very well too. Most happily, our school can save a lot of money while teaching students the importance of coming to school. The school in video and P.A.S shared the same goal of reaching perfect attendance; however, they use different methods. P.A.S seems more intelligent about using strategy to control students attendance…

Topic1: The Big Questions

AP Microeconomics

Topic 1: The Big Questions

Willy Lee

In PAS economic society, everyone play important roles of being consumers and producers. As students, we are consumers, who pay tuition to PAS in order to assimilate fruitful knowledge from teachers and textbooks. As teachers, you are producers, who provide wisdom to students in order to make sure they have good learning environment. Applying interaction between students and teachers to consumers and produces, we can see one is closely associated with another, which means we cannot only have students without having teachers. For what, identifying different jobs, such as teachers, students, cleaning ladies, and office staff, we can investigate how many people are doing this particular job, and we will later divide the people by the whole population in PAS in order to get percentage. For instance, we have teacher-20% cleaning ladies-2%, students-68%, and office staff-10%. For how, we first need to identify what belongs to what elements. Lands related to natural resource, such as playground, basketball court on six floors, and the elevators. Labors, which contribute physical and mental effort, are everyone in PAS. Capitals, which emphasized on instruments, can be smart-board, textbook, tables, chairs, and projectors. Entrepreneurship represents the human who is in charge of organizing. Ms. Pamela will be the entrepreneurship in PAS. For whom, it has to do with who consumer good and services; therefore, students will be the consumers for learning new ideas and having great learning environment. Establishing PAS to recruit students, Ms. Pamela has ambition on benefiting not only her self-interest but also social interest. For her self-interest, Ms. Pamela has great dreams of providing the best learning environment to every students and making sure students can get into their dream colleges. For her social-interest, Ms. Pamela might benefit all the students by giving great learning opportunity and facilitate them to apply into dream colleges.