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That was what we did when I taught preschool. We gave everyone an award. Some kids it was hard coming up with those. I remember giving the loudest singer award to a kid who was very difficult. He was actually loud all the time, but when they sang it was especially noticable. We tried to talk a little about each kid and say something nice while we gave them the award. It was easy to give awards to kids who were always helping, or who were good at putting things away, or who were nice to everyone, or compasionate. I know when I was working in a church we stopped the sunday school perfect attendance awards for two reasons. One, was kids were coming to church sick and sharing the germs and two we had some kids who had divorced parents and could only come every other week, but they felt like they were being punished when they could not get the award. It is kind of sad that we now have to reward kids for doing what should be expected. In our middle school they have a party for kids who have not had more than one saturday school and have not had In School suspension and not more than so many lunch detentions. When I was younger most of the school would have been able to go attend. Apparently there are many who can't attend. It's kind of sad to see how things change.
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