What some teachers have to deal with .....

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Just checking out a school website / Dfee information for DH.
I have never seen this on the web page of a Primary school before

Attendance

The class with the best attendance each week will be awarded £2.50 to put towards enrichment activities at the end of the year. We colour band our attendance

Gold = 95%-100%
Green = 90% - 95%
Amber = 80-90%
Red = Below 80%
Please arrive on time for school. Children need to be in the line at 8:55am. School starts at 9:00am. School finishes at 3:15pm
Please be on time to collect your child.
When your child has a medical or dental appointment, it is important that you bring the appointment card to the School Office to confirm the absence from school

It makes me realise how cushy even the rougher schools round here are!

I don't understand what you're pointing out sorry

what?

By which I mean that's just an attendance policy which is pretty standard, apart from the money, in all schools.

I was honestly expecting this to be about children throwing chairs at teachers, brandishing knives, hitting out you know, the type of stuff that teachers do actually have to deal with in some schools

I thought it was going to be a complaint about parents!

80% class attendance - in a Primary. ....
Do you really think that is normal?
Schools get heavy grief from Ofsted if it goes under 95%
And demanding proof for medical appointments - have you ever had to do that?

This school has over 50% FSM

Because it says levels of attendance down to below 80% it doesn't mean that many do have levels that low.

The figure is presumably for individual children and individual classes, not the school as a whole. There are many reasons why a child's attendance drops, it does not necessarily mean they are "rough".

Oh, FSM. Clearly the children are all feral then

Even children in middle class areas can have 80% attendance.
MC children have serious illnesses too ...

Greensleeves - the children are not feral - the parents are.
As per my OP, it is per class - I presume to get peer pressure to make people come in.

Its the proof for medical appointments that really surprised me - does your school ask for that?

Yes all the primary and secondary schools my dc's have attended have had to provide evidence of medical appointments.
This is nothing new. When I was in school in the 80's, proof of appointments was needed.

Aside from the financial incentive I fail to see the problem.

the parents are feral? Do you know them all?

Have another . They're free.

fair enough.
I clearly live in far too cushy an area
bye

Our primary schools has the same sort of thing (though not the financial incentive, which as has been said is neither here nor there).

So you would assume feral parenting here too?

You might be right, but its a fantastic school, very well regarded.

You've over-thought this one...

Lol@ op. You ninnyhamer.

Sounds fine to me...

Its a sad day when you have to bribe children to attend school. Take them to India for a week and show them children desperate for a chance to have an education.

that wont cost &2.50 and to be honest its like saying " they are starving in cambodia"

loads of jobs have financial incentives to encourage team work etc

is that bribery too?