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@bankhaunter wrote:

But not much of one if a single absence at the start of the year rules a pupil out no matter what they do the rest of the time or for some children may mean they know they have no chance anyway.

 

A real incentive is one which makes every day's attendance matter for every child.

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Maybe not but a jolly good one for those who have a perfect attendance with just a few days to go.

I would dispute your definition of a 'real incentive' - incentives are generally just part of a package designed to achieve a particular objective and can apply in many cases to some as well as everyone.

In any case there is little dobt that the head teacher in this instance saw the scheme as an incentive and not a reward scheme - an incentive that has now been withdrawn.

As I said in my earlier post, I feel for the young lady cocerned but her family's actions in publicly criticising the school in the way they have has ended up in either a reward scheme from which pupils could benefit or an incentive scheme from which both school and pupils could benefit being withdrawn - how does that make things better?