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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The clip system is a punishment system, unfortunately. There is a book by Murray Sidman called Coercion and its Fallout. There is good discussion about the negative effects of punishment and it also addresses how kids HATE school among other things. I have two kids who LOVE to learn. They quickly learned to hate school with the punishment systems they have in place. My 1st grader started peeing her pants and both of my kids are very nervous at school. This has lasting effects and they are afraid to approach their teachers for fear of being yelled at or called out. It has been a nightmare for me being a parent of children who do not have behavior issues.[/quote]

I don't think there is anything wrong with using it as a punishment system if used appropriately - the things that get reds in my son's class are things that need to be punished -  stealing things from other K students, hitting, blatant bullying, cursing at a teacher.  No one gets a red for having problems sitting still, not being on task etc.  That's a yellow, which is not associated with any consequence, and you can move up from it.    [/quote]

Yeah, well at our school, a kid gets dropped a color for not filling in his agenda book in 3rd grade with the day's homework assignment. Mind you there is no creative positive reinforcement in place FOR filling in the agenda book. It doesn't take much to drop a kid a color but it does take a caring person who understands best practices in behavior management to encourage and I Jan for the RIGHT behavior.[/quote]

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