Whoa, stop the presses.

I think we found something we agree on. My opinion is strikingly similar - that kids are motivated in a variety of ways. For some (including me when I was a mercenary little rug rat), money is an additional enticement that overcame my laziness and was the extra push to do well, at least until other motivations took the place of cold, hard cash.

The criteria are indeed important (more agreement) as these are students who otherwise not see a way out of what we might classify as a dismal and bleak future. I'm waiting, however, for someone to argue that we are paying the poor (and predominantly non-white) not to breed.