Is bribery the answer when it comes to disciplining children?
By PJMingins82
@PJMingins82 (28)
May 28, 2012 5:17am CST
Some schools in the UK are offering iPods to students to prevent them truanting. But surely bribery is the wrong way to go about getting young people to behave? Not only is it going to give these children the wrong idea about how to go about things in life but it is going to make them lose even more respect for authority in the long run.
Granted it will probably get a few more children attending school but at what cost?
2 responses
@obey39 (125)
• China
29 May 12
Hello, my friend,Surely, bribery is by no means a correct way to educate students in the classroom but a evil approach to put them to the material world in the long run.Now students'inner world is very simple, susceptible to accept some unhealthy concepts spreading in the society.So it is time that the government should express no to this kind of rewarding system-bribery.The earlier they recognize its bad effect and banned it, the less the students will be spoiled.
@ksstormhunter (792)
• United States
28 May 12
I have to agree the with offering items to stop them from improper behavior. I think there should be some type of system that does reward for prolonged good behavior and negative consequences for bad behavior. Again it is tough to find a good balance of how much we reward or punish.
