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Reply to "Elementary awards--perspective, please"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our elementary school, all the parents could go. But it was the same small handful of students who won all the awards, time after time after time. I could not figure out why the school would continue with such a lopsided way of recognizing students. They also had school wide testing every week and only those who got very high marks were recognized and rewarded with a pizza lunch with the principal. Very disheartening to the rest of the kids, including mine.[/quote] Yes, I'm not sure why the schools feel that they need to reward the students who would do well anyway (and according to Drive by Dan Pink and other info, such rewards probably lower motivation) while discouraging students who may be doing the best they can but will never make the cutoff for some silly reward. Sometimes I think the rewards are meant more for the parents than anything. [/quote]
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