Rewarding academic achievement in elementary school is a relatively new practice, which has come under intense scrutiny as it has become more popular. In the short term, offering a student a reward for completing a school task is likely to successfully lead him to pay attention to at least this particular task. However, introducing this model into a developing mind is potentially dangerous to the social development of some children and could haunt them later in life. The debate about students' extrinsic gratification has been raging for many years, and the practice itself is much older than that. Parents and teachers have rewarded students for good grades or good behavior since the beginning of civilization and punished them for poor performance, and this practice will continue forever. For centuries, scholarships have rewarded good students with money for tuition and fees. Formalizing it in our elementary schools is a newer concept, replacing time-tested physical punishment in today's soft, politically correct era. Children like to feel in control and encourage control....