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Thank You!!!
By kreeves

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY! Why should we be rewarding kids all the time for doing the things they SHOULD be doing anyway?? Will they get a reward all the time in life? Rarely more than simply not getting in trouble. I am all for
praising children for doing positive things and making good choices...even rewarding them OCCASIONALLY for such things. I am really skeptical of school-wide positive behavior support systems and am really nervous because the school I will be working in this coming year uses them. I really do think they send the wrong message to the children who would do the right thing, regardless. Then,

their focus shifts from, "I do the right thing because it's the right thing to do" to, "I do the right thing because I can go to the school store and get a really cool prize!" Then, where will those good kids be when they get into the real world (possibly even MIDDLE SCHOOL) and realize that there are no more fun prizes for making the right choices? I am so glad that I am not alone in thinking that it's okay to EXPECT children to have high standards for themselves and to simply help them work toward those standards and learn from mistakes along the way using logical consequences.

By the way...have any of you read Teaching with Love and Logic or heard about it? It deals with these same issues and I'd love to find others on this board who have read it and will be trying out some (or even more ambitiously ALL) of its techniques! Just wondering :)