Do you think it's right to have children's Levels up on display in the classroom?

[Niceweather]

Three Circular targets (like for archery) have appeared on our classroom walls. One each for reading, writing and maths, along with pictures of children at various points in the targets. I do not think this is a good idea for several reasons - what do you think?

A few of the parents attached to my DS's class are competitive. I would strongly object to ANY parents helping out in the class in which their DC attends.

Parents helping in another school year could work. Parents can help the community of their school if they help in another class.

So I wonder why this is unacceptable, yet the majority of parents want to see children forced to run races in front of parents?

How often do other people set foot in their DC classrooms, anyway?
It's very rare I go near them, usually for parents' eve & then I'm too busy chatting to teacher to look around.

Yes boney, why is it acceptable to make a big fuss and be proud because your child can run faster than some other children, but to do the same because your child is good at maths would be frowned upon?

At DS school they have a behaviour board and a work board. They move up/down the behaviour board and start each day in the middle, on the work board they all start at the bottom and move up when they produce a good piece of work. The good work is not in comparison to each other but just for themselves.

It is better than showing particular levels but still has its downsides ie if a child is generally well behaved, they rarely go down but rarely get put up whereas the badly behaved children of course go down the board but when they behave 'normally' they often get put up. Same with the work board really for thoise children who produce good work day in day out.

It does seem a better way than using targets or levels as some children may never reach them and like someone else mentioned people can be unkind about clever children.

My DS was extremely excited about getting awarded a pen to use instead of a pencil a few weeks back and one of his 'friends' was extremely nasty to him about it which really upset him. In year R the children were really excited when others did well but the divide is starting already in Y1.