Our school has just started giving out attendance prizes for children. This is an infants school. The children are 4, 5, 6. and 7. The attendance prizes - certificates or a pencil... - are given both to individuals and to classes.
I'd like to hear your thoughts. This policy is seriously arsing me off.
I feel it's deeply unfair to hold children accountable for the fact that heir parents choose not to bring them to school or struggle to get them to school on time...
I feel it fosters feelings of failure and resentment among the class. Thus those kids who care about attendance end up feeling cross with the children who, for whatever reason, don't turn up at all and bring down the class average.
Also the school does not discriminate between absences. A sick child, a child with feckless parents, a child on authorised holiday - they all count equally towards absence figures. A child who is ill ends up not getting a certificate - or worse - getting told off for low attendance - even though she's been throwing up all night.
These are VERY YOUNG KIDS. Anyone able to defend this policy please?
(Other than a Govian attempt to train obedient workers who are able to adjust early to unfair employment laws).
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Thoughts on Attendance Certificates etc for kids...
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expansivegirth · 20/04/2013 09:01
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