To be annoyed those who are good are not rewarded?

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It's just been announced who will get the year reward on Monday. It's kids who have been on report (which means isolation, letters home and teacher support) the reason being they have tried hard.
My daughter is beside herself. She is predicted below average grades but has studied, done extra lunch time work and tried every single lesson and now is at expected or just above. This has been down to pure determination. She doesn't find it easy to behave, she works all the time to earn her merits and yet none of the hard working conscienous pupils get a reward.
I've told her that hard work is its own reward and that in the long run it will all be worth it. But is it so difficult for the teachers to realise that the quiet hard working kids need some recognition?

Unfortunately this rewarding of bad behaviour continues into the workplace cynical head on.

Well done to your daughter, can you take her out to celebrate?

Well that’s pretty shocking 😢

MidsomerBurgers - not where my DH works. He’s quick to reward people who work hard and get things done, and stop or curtail the bonuses of those who don’t pull their weight or whose productivity is below par. He has more trouble trying to gently educate the latter employees of their delusions regarding their ability.

My school set up a little club for the naughty kids, they became friends and suddenly instead of disruptive individuals we had a little gang who egged each other on and would walk out of class to meet up and cause chaos, the smartest one essentially became Fagin and taught the others all sorts of tricks they never would have thought up on their own.

We now do rewards for good children and if the ones on report want to be included they have to prove that they can be good children.

Yabu, though only a little
If you measure distanced travelled, rather than where they end up, those kids may have had to work an awful lot harder to get where they are
You say your child doesn't always find it easy to behave. Maybe they find it very very difficult but have also tried extremely hard.
You know how hard your daughter has tried, and well done to her, and to you for supporting her. You have no idea the hurdles other kids have had to jump through
I think prizes are a bit shit tbh. They demotivate everyone who doesn't get one. Much better would be for pupils to award each other prizes for fun stuff, ensuring everyone is valued

Had my DS birthday party today and the lad who got the year award who I mentioned was a nightmare. He punched 2 kids and kicked out at one causing a bloody nose, in the end I called his mum to come and get him. He mum stormed in took him and said “they are only jealous with you being best boy in the class with your year award.

She seems to ignore the fact he is on report every week in the year and is send to the head almost every day!!!! (I work there so know all this)