Separating the two seems the most sensible to me. The article asks the questions: Should students be rewarded for being friendly, prepared, compliant, a good

Separating the two seems the most sensible to me. The article asks the questions: Should students be rewarded for being friendly, prepared, compliant, a good school citizen, well organized and hard-working? Or should good grades represent exclusively a student’s mastery of the material? This strikes me as a false dichotomy, and it sounds like it has been in use with no catastrohpic effects.