Is it me or do schools...

[FlyingJesus]

It's been this way since at least the early 90s. Seeing people ridiculously inferior to you getting praise and rewards just for managing not to eat their books when you get nothing at all for being the highest achiever in near every field is apparently demoralising enough to make some of those at the top just give up and let their potential go to waste. Good work, welfare state.

[beth]

all of you guys obviously have had a sublime time at school, and i'm sorry the teachers didn't give you things for doing as your supposed to.

but all i'm gonna say is, and i'm saying this from experience, the stuff teachers do with those kids pastorally can save lives.

[Gibs960]

It's the opposite at my school... if you do 1 bad thing wrong, you can't do anything right ever again at that school... it gets annoying both ways...

[Shar]

Not necessarily true, the teacher's usually +rep me when I do things right and I'm like far from a rebel student (A)

[Jamesy]

Yeah, bad people who do good get rewarded, people who do good anyway dont.

Sad but true. The other year my school introduced a system where for every grade you got over a target grade on a piece of assigned work, you got X points and at the end of the year those with the most points were entered into a draw to win £750. So if you're target grade was an A you were considerably short changed .

[Moh]

Yeah, my school was like that, a bit kinder though. I'v always been middle set, the bottom set get rewarded for doing easy stuff and the top sets get rewarded well.. just for being top set.

So during all my time in secondary school, I'v never had the chance to go to theme parks, skiing, Paris. The only trips I got to go on were history and geography, but you've got to do work in them =[

Really unfair.

[Alkaz]

Kids with bad attendance and behaved poorly at my old school we're rewarded with free trips to Thorpe Park, iPods, iTunes vouchers yet people like me who didn't have a single detention in five years were just forgotten and left behind. Admittedly all of those who were rewarded for their sins got crap grades at the end of year 11 but perhaps if they made good examples out of the good kids then the bad ones would be more inclined to do better to get these rewards.

[JACKTARD]

We have loads, the good people get free trips out to decent places and the **** people get nothing.


We also have a thing where if you were working at above your target grades you got a free breakfast but for some people that wasnt great because all targets were A*

[Volumise]

oh my skls opposite
where bad people can't go to trips etc
good people get rewarded certificates and crap

[Fez]

Should be grateful for the gifts that your personality has bestowed on you. By all means, you have a right to feel cheated out of a reward, but isn't the biggest reward of all being able to look down on all the 'bad behaved' people with those pocketfuls of qualifications and a well paying job?