Star of the day

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My child is in year 5. Her teacher uses a system called 'star of the day' as a reward for good work, behaviour etc. There are 29 children in the class, a couple of which have already received this award more than once. My daughter is a middle of the road, hard working, no trouble kind of child. Is it me or is this system a dated, de-motivator? Should I address this with the head or the teacher herself? Or, should I just leave it The teacher is young and in-experienced. I am concerned about the child who is last to get this award..not just my own child...what a crushing finale to the end of every day for 28 children!!???

From a teacher's point of view, this kind of thing is horrible - you constantly have to monitor who hasn't received it and try and engineer a reason for them to get it sometimes! The kids like it though.

Really don't like these reward systems and I pretty much play down the significance of them. If a reward system was needed I would much prefer a system where children were rewarded for their efforts - regardless of how many other kids had deplayed huge efforts on that day. So on some days you would have 3 stars of the day and other days you'd have none - you'd reward on merit rather than competition for one spot.

Doesn't that just prove how worthless it is? And if it is 'horrible', why do it?
Thanks for replying. Do you do this in your class?

Yes! Noidea - this sounds more like it - do you think I should go in?