Rewarding before the task is done?

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I would like to hear from you on your opinion on this: If you knew of a child that was grounded at home, do you think it's right for that child to participate in a special activity given by an outside adult due to the child's good behaviour at school? At that school, the child gets a behaviour colour for how they did: Blue is excellent, green is good, yellow is not so good, orange is bad and red is very very bad. The agreement between the child and the parent with the babysitter was if the children got five days worth of green marks, he'd be able to go swimming. A week is from Monday to Friday. But their school has early release days on Wednesday. This child had three days so far of good marks and was allowed to go swimming, even though he was grounded during the week for being mouthy, argumentative, lying and forging signatures for the school. Me? I would have had the child prove for one week solid that he can do the required one week and not being grounded. ~Pleiades UPDATE: Turns out the child was allowed to go swimming, but the day after this event, he came home with an orange mark so even if the adults had waited out the full week, he blew it.