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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]And if he got a lot of bad marks, it would make me question whether his caregivers have decided they don't like my little guy or have pigeonholed him as a behavior problem.[/quote]

I agree with everything you said.  The unfortunate thing, however, is that they system would only be drawing your attention to the fact that the teachers may have pigeonholed him as a behavior problem.  Teachers definitely do this with or without the system.  I can tell by the tone of my son's teacher's voice when she speaks to certain children that she isn't as fond of them as other kids.  When we went in for parent teacher conferences, she said at the beginning, "this should be easy because your son is not a problem kid," indicating that she felt others were.[/quote]

I think you're right - it's human nature to prefer one kid over another, and a problem child is probably not going to be a teacher's favorite.  That said, I'm definitely not comfortable having that preference widely advertised to other parents, and if my child needs extra incentive to behave better, that should be a private conversation between me, my child, and the teacher.  Other parents may not pay attention to the bad marks, and the other kids may not care too much that my kid is being denied snacks, but it would make ME feel awful and it would almost certainly make MY CHILD feel awful, so the fact that other parents don't really care is not particularly comforting (although you're probably right - although I'd probably be a little nosey and glace at the marks other kids were getting - that, too, is human nature).[/quote]

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