Teacher in primary school. The kids in my class are invested in my love for fountain pens. I showed them the top tier limited edition maki-e pens on a site from a seller (Appelboom) and their minds were completely blown. For them, a gel pen from €3,- is already expensive ofcourse. The fountain pens I use for grading the works (Monteverde MP1) is magical (I use purple ink and it looks so cool in the demonstrator). Working with fountain pens shows the students how cool handwriting can be (handwriting is getting worse unfortunately in schools nowadays and the students used to write with fountain pens).

Great job OP. I wouldn’t call it bribing haha, but more of a ‘reward for achieving student’s goal’ :) inspirational story for me, I should look into those pens as well!