Soulja

I wish i knew where this is man, i could get a free game.

but anyway, i kinda like what he's doing, he motivating kids to get good grades...i think.

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CingularDuality

Exactly. This is the kind of community outreach that more businesses should be doing!

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Keres

Do you guys remember the Book It program that Pizza Hut used to do? It's been quite a few years, but if my memory serves me correctly, if you read a certain number of books and the teacher signed off that you did, in fact, read them, they would give you a free personal pan pizza. And I was quite the reader in elementary school, so I got a free pizza every week or so .

Now, to those of you who are so entitled that you think that these stores deserve your business, was it unfair that because I liked to read, that I got more pizzas and filled the star chart within the first couple months and my fellow classmates didn't? How about when I'd bring my straight A report card to Chuck E Cheese and I'd get a handful of free tokens for being a good student? These businesses are trying to enforce, at a young age, that doing well in school is good, that reading is good, and that if you do these things, you will be rewarded. A young student doesn't understand the concept of intrinsic reward, so they are given something for doing well: a pizza, a bunch of tokens, a free video game, or the PRIVILEGE to shop at the videogame store. These external rewards, as a kid, are the coolest thing ever, but they lead to something more, and that is, when you start doing well, you're proud of yourself. And as you get older, it's that pride which drives you to do well.

I commend this man for caring enough about our youth and our future, to be the one to say, "I think you should go read a book instead."

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Shiner

I personally support this policy, but it is pretty sad that parents don't enforce this on their own. Why the F are they allowing their kids to play video games while their kids are getting poor grades... I know I wasn't allowed on a computer if my grades were too low when I was growing up and I plan to apply similar rules to my kids.

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That's such a huge other issue it would deserve one, maybe two, of its own threads.

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jex

It seems to me that kids are getting their own way more and more these days. Rewarding them for something they've acheived goes well on their outlook as well. If they always get their own way, they value nothing.

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snooggums

I also loved the Pizza Hut thing because I got rewarded for doing work, where as the Gamestop guy is punishing not working. The two approaches can have very different results.

I agree that it is good that the guy is trying, but I think he is doing it the wrong way from a business standpoint as they could just shop somewhere else. If was to give them 5 or 10 percent off for good grades I bet he would get better results for the business and the kids.

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Actually, he's doing both:

"If you give me straight As with your teachers signature, endorsing it and your parent up here, I'll buy you a brand new game," Scott said.

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Icehawk217

I think this whole thing is stupid, because its pretty sad if the only reason a kid would try to do well in school was to buy a video game.

Something wrong with this.

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AN508

Oh, definitely agreed. But then, which is worse; that the kid gets good grades because he wants to buy a game, or that he ends up being a quasi-illiterate trailer-trash junkie with an IQ in the low 60s?

Atomic Dog

As a parent, I'm all for this guy...as a kid I probably would've been all about this guy too. I mean seriously, if this guy had been in my neighborhood I'd have been playing him and my parents for free games every time I got a report card.

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icky

Nice!

When I was a young teen, my brother was managing an arcade. One time at the end of the school year, they had a program where they would give out free credits for every A you had on your report card. Needless to say, my brother's alphabet skills and his math skills were very weak when he read my report card. Those extra free games ruined my life. Look at me now.

I think promoting "better" grades would be the best approach if this guy wants to have a meaningful impact.

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NorCalRoach

Give that guy a raise! He's got a lot of balls for what he's doing, risking his job for the sake of encouraging more kids to get better grades.

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Santa

Im with Icky on the "better grades". I mean lets face it, some kids are stupid.

RandomGuy

This ham-fisted policy just shames kids with bad grades, which isn't a good way to motivate them. Besides, it's pretty hard for a kid to hide the amount of times they spend playing games from their parents. There are much worse things they could be doing that are a lot harder to hide.