James06
Vital Football Legend
Settle an argument for me please.
A woman at work has a duaghter who gets rewarded by credits into an account at school which can be used for school trips or in the tuckshop/canteen. This is for attaining targets set and/or for good behaviour.
What is your opinion of this?
Personally I think good behaviour is to be expected and bad behaviour should be punished. As for results or reaching targets, this is also an expectation in keeping with standards of effort that reap their own benefits over time for the individual. In no way whatsoever should the school be offering these sorts of rewards IMO.
It should be instilled that a sense of achievement and pride should be gained form doing well at school, and the knowledge that the better you do, the greater chance you give yourself of success in the future. Also, we shouldn't be teaching children that money is the biggest achievement/reward. I think it's short sighted and an easy option of the school and also the parents if they think money is positive motivator.
Each to their own when it comes to parenting of course, but I remember mine saying to me that they wouldnt reward me financially for passing exams because that wasnt what it was about. It was about achieving results that would help me as an individual in life.
A woman at work has a duaghter who gets rewarded by credits into an account at school which can be used for school trips or in the tuckshop/canteen. This is for attaining targets set and/or for good behaviour.
What is your opinion of this?
Personally I think good behaviour is to be expected and bad behaviour should be punished. As for results or reaching targets, this is also an expectation in keeping with standards of effort that reap their own benefits over time for the individual. In no way whatsoever should the school be offering these sorts of rewards IMO.
It should be instilled that a sense of achievement and pride should be gained form doing well at school, and the knowledge that the better you do, the greater chance you give yourself of success in the future. Also, we shouldn't be teaching children that money is the biggest achievement/reward. I think it's short sighted and an easy option of the school and also the parents if they think money is positive motivator.
Each to their own when it comes to parenting of course, but I remember mine saying to me that they wouldnt reward me financially for passing exams because that wasnt what it was about. It was about achieving results that would help me as an individual in life.