@bankhaunter wrote:
Such a scheme would also seem to be discriminatory against pupils who have poor health since they are more likely to need time away from school.
I got the impression the treat was a reward and not an incentive and one would have thought that a reward for children would be awarded if they had done all they could to achieve the required target, it wasn't a measure of ability at exercising a skill.
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/head-teacher-says-sorry-after-7474559
Now, headteacher Anne Parry has written a letter to the Telegraph apologising for the school’s decision.
She wrote: “I want to say upfront how truly sorry we are that this has happened and take this chance to explain how the oversight occurred.
“Countless schools across the UK are being placed under pressure to improve their annual attendance figures.
“In order to encourage and support this, many schools are now looking for increasingly creative methods to promote these government set targets.”
Sounds like an incentive to me 🙂
