Sending out daily itemized emails to parents was previously limited to students who frequently caused disruptions.
However, I remember teachers gamifying classroom behavior when I was a kid with points systems and rewards. Context and content matters a lot. A first grader is going to love it if their parents mention how great they did at school because they were a team player or helped a friend. A middle/high schooler will be mortified to get the same report. I would ask the teacher to stuff it if she was recording my daughter's bathroom breaks, but what if my kid was having some kind of problem where they were cutting class by taking excessive bathroom breaks? Then I'd start wanting some records.
"if my kid was having some kind of problem where they were cutting class by taking excessive bathroom breaks?"
This app presumably just leaves the ball in the parents court? If there were a problem I'd expect the teacher to be proactively dealing with it, and/or discussing it with me.
"Context and content matters a lot"
Agreed, half the problem is that this loses context.
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Where's the context there? Is that a problem? Normal?
I don't have a problem with gold stars and stuff, this is just depersonalising and not helpful.
The fact that this screenshot was posted by a stranger on Twitter is what removed the context. That's why the harsh reaction doesn't make any sense. We have no idea what has been going on in that classroom or with that particular kid. Hell, we don't even know if it's real.
However, I remember teachers gamifying classroom behavior when I was a kid with points systems and rewards. Context and content matters a lot. A first grader is going to love it if their parents mention how great they did at school because they were a team player or helped a friend. A middle/high schooler will be mortified to get the same report. I would ask the teacher to stuff it if she was recording my daughter's bathroom breaks, but what if my kid was having some kind of problem where they were cutting class by taking excessive bathroom breaks? Then I'd start wanting some records.