To feel my DDs good behaviour has been taken advantage of by a teacher

[Three4two]

DD is upset. She is in yr 4. The school has a Green Amber Red behaviour policy. Every Friday just before home time those who have been Green all week get rewarded with 30 mins playtime.
Today at the beginning of green time the teacher (not her usual teacher) asked DD to tidy up the classroom instead and told her she would get a reward. She spent the half hour tidying but he never came back to the classroom as the usual teacher returned to let them out at home time. Needless to say she got no reward and wasted her green time. I hear from one of my other DDs he has done this before and always chooses the reliable ones to do the tidying. I am giving him the benefit of the doubt that he just forgot the reward but he shouldn't have asked her to do this during green time in the first place. I'm quite angry. DD is always on green and I don't think she should be 'rewarded' by tidying up.

was she crying because she was tidying up, or because she didn't get her promised reward?

Bet all those going 'non-issue, stop making a drama' would change their tune if, let's say, their boss asked them to stay late in return for a few hours flexi time, and then found they weren't going to get it after all.

It's important for teachers to stick to their word about rewards, not only for the difficult kids but also for the generally good ones. I would mention it and request that either the kids take turns or some other system is used. And the attempts to put people off pointing out unfairness by saying 'you'll get eyerolls' 'you'll be THAT parent' are frankly pathetic. Teachers are grown ups too and generally behave like them, though you wouldn't think it from some of the suggestions about how they behave that are made on here.

I think that's really unfair on your dd. I do Brownies and yes, they love helping to tidy up, but not if no one else is doing it! "Getting the broom from the cupboard" is a great honour but not if everyone else is playing a game without them.

I would never expect someone to help for the entirety of their "green time" unless they had made it clear that they didn't want to go out and play.

So your DD behaved well all day and earned her "green time". But she gave up her reward for good behaviour in order to tidy up the class, and was told she would be rewarded for doing the tidying. But in the end she lost her "green time" and didn't get a reward for tidying either? And the teacher has form for this?

I think someone needs to point out to the teacher that promising rewards which aren't delivered isn't on. It makes him appear unfair and untrustworthy. Probably an oversight, but one which does need addressing before next time.

YANBU
Surely one child being exempt isn't fair. I would have thought she could have at least had a friend with her.

Where were the children that hadn't been on green all week? I find it hard to believe that a full class stayed on green all week!

It always irritates me when parents say things like "I hear from x". Go in and ASK for goodness sake.

YANBU, I dont like the way that the well behaved children get taken advantage of.

We are now coming to the end of school. All three of my DCs were/are well behaved throughout school. Not a single detention between them. Throughout their school careers we have seen this.