I'm quite shocked by this. Is it even allowed?

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After being dragged into DS' reception class this afternoon by DS to look at some of his work on the wall I noticed some trains on the wall with 10 stations on a track. There were 6 trains, all with different children's names on them.

When I asked DS why he didn't have one he replied with 'oh those are for the naughty children, when they get to station number 10 they get a reward'

Is it normal for children to know which are classed as the 'naughty' ones in the class? I agree that it is probably good for the 'naughty' children to have a visual aid and something to work towards but to put it so openly in front of the other children and parents really shocked me!

Yep, seems about right to me. I've got no problem with the ones who are being naughty being up on the wall, so long as they are being helped to improve with clear guidelines, expectations, rewards when they do improve etc.

The ones who are behaing themselves will be (or should be) getting noticed in other ways, with rewards, full golden time, stickers, pupil of the week, sitting on the fancy cushion during floor time, that sort of thing.

It's also worth remembering that children sometimes get a bit muddled up about what's happening - in terms of those displays - and it's possible there's some kind of system that mitigates against it always being the same children up there. Why don't you ask the teacher about it?

The not naughty children never get a reward in my experience.

Ds1 has just started secondary school and I was shocked when he announced this term there was a financial reward for the child who had the biggest reduction in detentions .... how do you win if you've never had a detention? Ds1 and his friend have never had one so can't win. Bloody ridiculous.

maybe you would have been less shocked if she had termed it differently -
"those are for the children who need more motivation to work well"

If it helps the children behave then there is less disruption, therefore your child will be in a better learning environment. So really everyone wins (if it is used properly).

In my kids school, there is a chair used for 'time outs' for one boy. One boy out of the whole school.
He is always doing something, every single day.
The rest of the kids, just get a tick next to their name when they do something good and the more ticks they have, then they get a rewards.

2shoes - at DS's school (he's yr 1) they get stickers or token rewards - pencil/cheapo toy car for all sorts of reasons - for being brave (say after minor fall), for good work, for trying hard in a particular lesson etc, it's really nice.