Is it me or do schools...

[FlyingJesus]

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.

That is true but not all of them need that sort of help. There were only like 3 people at my high school who had pastoral attention for the right reasons (and one of those was middle/top set just messed up) but all the spacks got told how great they were for being able to put their own shirts on.

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?

No. This was always the line we got given by parents and teachers when we said anything about it but what kind of "reward in itself" as they put it is being the best when no-one acknowledges it or helps you build on it? Also with that aside I'm fairly sure most of the academically challenged kids are richer personally than I am because they got into manual trades which are high-paying from the start.

[Fez]

No. This was always the line we got given by parents and teachers when we said anything about it but what kind of "reward in itself" as they put it is being the best when no-one acknowledges it or helps you build on it? Also with that aside I'm fairly sure most of the academically challenged kids are richer personally than I am because they got into manual trades which are high-paying from the start.

I guess you're right.

[dbgtz]

No. This was always the line we got given by parents and teachers when we said anything about it but what kind of "reward in itself" as they put it is being the best when no-one acknowledges it or helps you build on it? Also with that aside I'm fairly sure most of the academically challenged kids are richer personally than I am because they got into manual trades which are high-paying from the start.

Yeah but its like (at this age for some) "work hard and you get qualifications to work more" or "do absolutely nothing and you can go to thorpe park 5 times and then you can just live off of benefits so you never lift a finger again"

[Homosexual]

recognise and award bad people but not well behaved people? For example in my school:

• a group of people who perform badly (behaviour-wise) got a trip to the new forest recently but anyone who was doing well couldn't go.
• today, a guy with really bad uniform recieved a mr potato head for having bad uniform but no one got an award for having good uniform
• i dont really care about this one but good people don't get like points of some sort (we call them merit points but i dunno what u do)

its like i might aswell avoid all the rules in order to get recognition.

My school does the first and the third.. :/

There was this guy who started a fight and was excluded for two days.. at the end of the year he got to go to Alton Towers with everyone else in the Exclusion Room (that's what we call it..).

The third, we call them "achievement codes" and "behaviour codes". Good people used to get achievement codes, but now only behaviour codes are given out instead of both.

Good students get no recognition anymore.. :\

[Nuxty]

Sounds like my school as well! What they're probably trying to do is bribe the bad kids with treats etc trying to build a sort of relationship with them so they wont be bad again etc.

[crazed]

Yes, it's always been like this. Naughty/ misbehavingchildren get rewards when they behave for a while, this hopefully encourages them to act good all the time.

[Pyroka]

its cuz the idiots and those who are destined for the dole need that extra push to see that theyre doin good

usually this means kids that do excellent get neglected

which really does highlight why people want to go to really good skls, cuz they know that if theres no bad eggs then all the smart kids get the praise and well they get better dont they

some kids function well without praise and want to do better so they can get praise, but yeah some just give up and then theyre on the dole too hey go figure lol the world wouldn't be going around if we didnt have our idiot wasters!

highly jealous of mr potato head though

[louder]

recognise and award bad people but not well behaved people? For example in my school:

• a group of people who perform badly (behaviour-wise) got a trip to the new forest recently but anyone who was doing well couldn't go.
• today, a guy with really bad uniform recieved a mr potato head for having bad uniform but no one got an award for having good uniform
• i dont really care about this one but good people don't get like points of some sort (we call them merit points but i dunno what u do)

its like i might aswell avoid all the rules in order to get recognition.

not being noticed is reward enough. trust me.
i was awful in school.
i was suspended & skiving more than i was there.

if nobody's saying anything to you, then everything's fly.

[Hollie]

Alot of my teachers do but not all of them, my maths teacher does really bad.. Theres this boy who is constantly disrupting the lesson and she said to him 'If you dont speak for 10 minutes you can have an event log' (an event log is a really good thing at my school) just because she can't control him.. The people who don't talk a lot don't get anything. Me and my friend stayed behind after the lesson to talk to her about it and she was all defensive about it. Really annoyed me tbh

[::Art::]

Haha this year the good people went to London and the others went to cork