*thinks*

[conuly]

Teachers in Arkansas can still reward students with candy.

Question: Why can't they reward students with something else? Growing up, we always got stickers. Or no-homework passes, or 5 extra points on a test. Not candy!
Question: Why are they concerned about obesity, but NOT about the potential damaging effects of rewards? I remember reading in my psych class, children who were rewarded for drawing were much less likely to choose to draw later. There's a lot of not-good implications of that, and related, studies.

Comments

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

ARF! ARF-ARF!

::claps front fins together while balancing beach-ball on nose::

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

I had a teacher just a few months ago who game me stickers when I got an A on a test. Since that wasn't hard to do, I have a large collection.

[shavedapebaby.livejournal.com]

Could be worse. In Arkansas they eat deep-fried Twinkies.

[wicked-dragon-x.livejournal.com]

I thought that was mostly an Ohio/Pennsylvania thing (seeing as how I've seen deep-fried Twinkies at the local fair [in Ohio] and I could swear my friend has seen them in PA, but I haven't really heard about them outside of OH/PA). Huh, learn something new every day.

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

ARF! ARF-ARF!

::claps front fins together while balancing beach-ball on nose::

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

I had a teacher just a few months ago who game me stickers when I got an A on a test. Since that wasn't hard to do, I have a large collection.

[shavedapebaby.livejournal.com]

Could be worse. In Arkansas they eat deep-fried Twinkies.

[wicked-dragon-x.livejournal.com]

I thought that was mostly an Ohio/Pennsylvania thing (seeing as how I've seen deep-fried Twinkies at the local fair [in Ohio] and I could swear my friend has seen them in PA, but I haven't really heard about them outside of OH/PA). Huh, learn something new every day.