[Vicky.]

I don't really agree with everyone being praised no matter how good/bad they are. yeah if you get a kid thats average or below average at everything they may not get anything, but sorry thats the way the world works..people should get rewards for being better than others IMO

But the main thing I disagree with in schools is 'attendance awards'. Its punishing kids for being ill, and encouraging parents to send their child into school ill also, to spread whatever to the other children. There was a kid in my daughters school who recently got awarded a free cinema trip and an award for not having a day off school in 6 years. But, this kid had been sent into school with vomiting bugs and all sorts..been sent home on an afternoon after puking in the middle of class, and then sent back the very next day (when they are meant to be off for 48 hours) and at the same time, other kids started going down with this bug. I suspect it was because of the ****ty parenting involved in a child being ill. Yet, this was praised?! The other children who stayed off, as you are supposed to, were penalized for doing the right thing. Attendance awards seriously annoy me