Teachers using sweets for school work reward

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we are at a large state ‘outstanding’ primary school in SW London.
I have noticed that more and more teachers throughout the school are using sweets rewards for children’s academic work, or perhaps excellent behaviour, whilst the school promotes independent learning and has a healthy snack and meal policy to tackle obesity (barring us to send the kids with a cereal bar for break time for example).

I don’t mind the reward system (lots use dojo points) or even the sweets in a school (on special occasions), but the direct link and association annoys me, even more so in a school setting. I think the association work+ sweet reward is very detrimental, especially as it is across the school right to the year 6.
The school is in a rather affluent, middle class area where lots of children have access to private clubs, tutoring, outside sports with lots of parental support so the very large majority of the children is quite easy to teach.
I just wondered if the same is happening elsewhere ?
Thanks

Ds was given 6 ice lollies in one day at his school. He told me 6 and I thought surely not? so I asked his ta and she said he was hot and kept crying for ice lollies..

He used to do daily Easter egg hunts from the February as soon as the chocolate hit the shops, there wasn’t a day where he wasn’t given sweets / chocolate. He even drank Pepsi and they sent me a photo of him drinking it in a special cup ffs.

This went on for 3 years.

Drove me mad and I complained no end. They always said no we won’t then ds would come home and tell me or drop them in it at pick up, one day he said miss xxxxx what am I not allowed to tell mummy and she went bright red! It was that he’d had malteasers.

That’s apparently the answer, to make a Special needs child co operate you need to supply them with copious amounts of sugar.

He’s moved now and the first thing I said to his special school was no sweets / no chocolates, other than special occasions.

For the record he is allowed sweets and chocolate and even a drink of Pepsi as a treat but not at school?!

I'm a teacher and at my school we're allowed to give out sweets for special occasions eg Christmas, Easter and end of year but not as part of any reward system because we're a Healthy School.

After working hard, little reward of sugar boost isn't that bad?

@Myothercarisalsoshit My husband taught in an “affluent school” and hated it. Said the kids were utter pricks and promptly went back to teaching in a state school full of, what I imagine are classed “undesirables.”
I’ll be sure to tell him that he’s overreacting and that you are both doing it wrong 🤣

When teachers do this, I often wonder what they do for children who have type 1 diabetes (unusual but not unheard of). My (secondhand) understanding is that controlling blood sugar in diabetic children is often hard to do.

ooh! This brings back (unpleasant) memories. I was at a grammar school in the south of England. In the third yr as it was then, we had a maths teacher who would give sweets out to pupils (usually girls) who got answers right. Forward to yr 4 (10) , same maths teacher only MO changed- now we had to 'help ourselves' ! to the sweets in his pocket!. Nobody questioned why my marks had gone down from over 90% to under 30% in six months!!

Teachers have to pay for all this themselves?

It's kind of sad really.

I remember at primary school we did spelling tests on a Friday morning - the top five spellers got to come to the front where the teacher had a plastic celebrations tub full of sweets and you could get one. I was a fantastic speller and every Friday would get one. Bit unfair probably on poor spellers but it was the best part of my (usually rubbish) week. I never got the sweets at ‘mental maths’ time though!

It wouldn’t bother me unless they were handing out great big chocolate bars or something. If it’s just a small sweet then as long as the rest of the diet is healthy I don’t think it’s a big problem.