5 year old French School Magnet Punishment System

[Romika]

My dear little 5 year old boy is at a state school in Paris, France. His new form teacher has instilled a system whereby each of the kiddies gets a different coloured magnet for each time they step slightly out of line, from white to yellow to pink blue red etc, or some such.. and he's terrified of doing anything it would seem, being late, speaking too loudly, because of the stigma attached.
Does this seem hideously punitive and might stifle independent thought etc, or am I being overly woke? I know that they can be little nutters but it seems a little extreme.
Thanks!

@Needmorelego my kids’ school still has this.

literally everything Bertie wrote. 28 compliant kids, two who are on the cloud by the end of register and who then get moved up/rewarded for any basic shit the teacher can find.

Do you know what this is based on? Because France has lower numbers for diagnoses of various mental health or developmental disorders but that doesn't necessarily mean that there is a lower prevalence of those disorders - it's thought to be related to the fact that there is a huge stigma about these things in French culture so people are less likely to seek a diagnosis in the first place.

Yes... I've seen some of these used very successfully in schools. Though IME only when the staff/student ratios can support it, and that's where so many schools fall down. In the UK at least - or Scotland at least - the SLT policy is usually very much focused on supporting emotional literacy and regulation rather than reward/punishment. But staff can only do that in reality if they aren't spending most of their time on crowd control. I would love to hear from someone who has worked in a big, busy, vulnerable/mixed catchment primary school which has managed it - I'm sure they're out there!

@BertieBotts it's the same on self-reported wellbeing studies such as PISA so not just a case of differential approaches to diagnosing mental health conditions.

I think you sound a bit precious tbh, with the 'dear little boy' and 'terrified' etc.

Can your all to him and explain how it's good to do the right things, everyone makes mistakes sometimes, it doesn't really matter that much in the wider scheme of things? That he'll always be a lovely boy but it's good to follow the rules at school?

My understanding is that European schools just don't do pastoral care in the same way as UK schools, they don't see themselves as having to pussyfoot around feelings so much.

I mean, it’s better than when my French professor used to throw whiteboard pens at us for laughing at “piscine”

Behaviour management is a killer in teaching. Sometimes you spend more time controlling a class than teaching. It just takes one and then it is a domino effect.
Effective discipline will benefit your "dear little 5 year old boy ".

My DC school do the cloud system mentioned by a pp. There seem to be 5 places. You start at the middle snd can be moved up or down. Often the naughty kids get moved up for minor good behaviour. The kids that behave generally stay I'm the middle.