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She already has been forced by her parents to give up basketball and track because of slipping grades, and said she hopes to improve in school so she can play next year.
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If the grades were that bad, why didn't the school cut her from those sports. When i was in high school, I loved the varsity sports that I played. School said that unless you kept a B average, you were off the team. It was incentive to keep the grades up. I appplaud the parents for taking her off the team, however, the daughters behavior does seem to disagree with most every study I've seen that girls who are involved in sports are less likely to use drugs, get pregnant, basically get into trouble.
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Donald Wertlieb, a professor of child development at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University, warned that such punishment could do extreme emotional damage. He said rewarding positive behavior is more effective.
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Yeah, way to coddle the kid and prepare them for real life.. .I'm so ashamed he's from my alma mater - I thought they had more sense than that. Rewarding someone for good behavior seems to do nothing but raise expectations that when a person does exactly what is expected of them.. they get something additional. In the real world... doesnt happen that way. Rewards, if they come at all, come from exceeding expectations, not just meeting them.
I'd have a bigger problem with what this mom did, had she not been standing there with the kid. Though the wording on the sign seems a bit harsh.