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Originally Posted by rubymoo
And don't even get me started on the vivo reward system......!
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All Reward / Praise / Exclusion / Punishment systems are pretty widely accepted in the psychology community as being
absolutely awful ways to teach humans anything at all. They work well for dogs, and highly unintelligent / unimaginative people.
And yet schools across the country seem to be absolutely obsessed with using these sorts of systems.
You can't even "opt out" (we asked...) because apparently that would "be confusing for the other kids". I don't think it's socially acceptable to point out that I don't give a stuff about other people's kids
. So as it stands we just massively undermine the system with our daughter by laughing about it and making fun of it. She has a traffic light system in her room with her teacher's name as the sticker, and at the end of the day she gets to decide if the teacher was well behaved or not
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