Is political correctness holding all the bright kids back? I feel ( and please correct me if I'm wrong) that too many " awards" are being given to under achievers, and not enough praise is given to the kids that work hard, hand in 4 pages of homework behave well, etc.
Is it fair, or right ( in your opinion) that a child with serious behavioural problems and NO interest in learning whatsoever, gets to go up in assembly every other Friday for 1-2 awards, while the bright, hardworking well behaved kids get ignored completely for an entire term ? This seems to be happening quite a lot at some local primary schools, so I was just wondering what the goal is here ! Surely the bright kids will give up in the end if they do not get at least some praise ?
2007-01-21
23:54:39
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Paris69
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