Come on people "choke the others off" becasue they are competitive.
This is the driving force. Our worl gives everyone an honorable
mention so they don't feel bad about losing! But the reality is the
top readers will only read the basic points to get by as there is
no incentive. So then let us eliminate class ranking, no more
valedictorians or class ranks I guess. Why do we punish the kids
that are driven to do well by saying they hamper the others? All
kids should be challenged at their level and the key is finding the
thing that will motivate them, without punishing the good kids.
On 5/05/09, D wrote:
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> Our experience was that these problems disappear when the
> district goes to the Enterprise version and the students can
> quiz on whatever they want. The demand will shift a little bit
> away from fiction as more appropriate nonfiction is available.
> The hoarding at school will stop. More students will get books
> from the school library, since there will be more available on
> the shelves.
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> The problem then shifts to finding time and terminals to get the
> quizzes in before the student is halfway through the next book
> as invariably there is a 'competitive' group that wants to make
> AR into a points contest. These students will choke the others
> off from getting their minimum points in....so there will need
> to be signups to get computer time. If you give a mouse a
> cookie...
