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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apologies to the OP for hijacking this thread, but I'm wondering about another tactic I'm seeing in my daughter's classroom:

The kids sit at assigned tables, and the teacher has a system where tables can earn or lose tickets depending on their behavior. (If one individual acts up, the whole table can lose tickets.) There's a reward for earning a certain number of tickers, and one kid at each table is the table captain and is supposed to remind the other kids about their behavior.

Now, I feel for this teacher -- she has 26 1st-graders to manage, and no paraprofessional to help her -- but I have mixed feelings about this arrangement.

(Also, when I see situations where the whole group is held accountable for one person's behavior, it always makes me think of the blanket party in Full Metal Jacket. Obviously, 1st grade is not Vietnam, but I worry that it doesn't bring out the best in kids -- that it can lead to bullying.)[/quote]

I understand if you don't want to say, but is this Hunt Valley?  My 1st grader reported the same thing. [/quote]

Nope, not Hunt Valley --  it must be a pretty common tactic.[/quote]

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