UNPACK THE PROMPT Writing Prompt: Since many of the students are doing well with their grades, the administration at Orange Grove Middle Magnet School of the Arts decided they should be paid for their performance. However, the teachers are set against it. They feel that this is what the students should be self-motivated to do. What do you think? Should students be paid for their great academics? After reading the passage set on “Should Students be Paid?” make a stand on your position. Write an essay to show whether you agree or disagree about students being paid for their grades. Include information from the text to support your stance.

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.