The following was posted at the DisciplineWithoutStres mailring hosted by yahoo groups.com:
I just wanted to quickly relay a rewards-based disaster.
One of our seventh-graders, in fact, the daughter of a teacher, recently wanted to go to the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) reward dance. She is an A honor roll student, never a discipline problem, and a wonderful kid. In the haste of “bribing” misbehaving students to be good, we neglected to “reward” her for doing what she had motivated herself to do. Long story short, she did not have enough PBIS tickets to go to the dance. How horrible!!
Looks like rewards systems don’t quite cover the good kids as well as they should. Good thing that … >>>
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