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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid's new/young teacher in K used a custom one for my son that came home every day, because she thought it would incentivize good behavior. We agreed at first, even though we didn't think it would work - we wanted to allow her to use her methods. The chart was usually mostly yellow, and most days when asked, my kid couldn't even remember why it was.

We could tell that it was stressing him out because it was reinforcing to him that "I'm no good at school" so one night my DH tore it up and we said "no more charts". My son freaked out because he thought now we were going to get in trouble for damaging the sacred chart.

Unless you know your kid is reward motivated and is already pretty compliant and just has the occasional lapse, these things are disasters. Just say no. [/quote]

My oldest, who eventually turned into a wondeffully behaved child that teachers love, really struggled with the stoplight chart in kindergarten.

His first year teacher started it the second day of school, and from day three on he was sometimes on yellow but usually red.  Some infractions were noteworthy, but most of them were not. About six weeks into almost constant reds, he came home from school and said he didn't like himself anymore since he started kindergarten :(

Thankfully first grade had an experienced teacher  who didn't use those things. His behavior was night and day in her class and has been rrally great ever since.[/quote]

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