Academic performance and rewards People have different views about whether students should be rewarded for good academic performance or other great results. While all achievements should be noticed, I believe that pointing out the best school results is more important. On the one hand, schools are aimed at having more students with good performance because they mostly teach academic subjects. Having high marks for school subjects allows pupils to join colleges and universities, studies for free, and gets a scholarship. Moreover, schools encourage students to study better and increase their motivation by rewarding the best results. Not only do schools show pupils how to take part in competition, but they encourage children to work harder to outgo other students and get rewards. These are results that I believe schools should foster in young people. On the other hand, other good achivments also are worth getting reward or at least pointing out. A lot of students with great performance have problems with descipline and behaviour, therefore schools should highlite such results as well. In addition, some students may have music talent, but they cannot produce high marks in academic subjects. Thus, music achievements should be noticed and rewarded. Finally, some students take sports classes, show impressive results at a sport and they may be a sportsmen in the future, and it is unfair to leave these results out of attention. In conclusion, I can understand why some people want other achievements to get an award, but it seems to me that academic results are the main school aim and schould be rewarded.