I'm sorry Mrs. Jones, your son Timmy failed math

[shiner]

McDonald's advertises on report cards.

 

[IronWing]

We're screwed.

 

[shiner]

Link to story

 

[mobobuff]

The school gives out reward coupons for McDonalds for receiving good grades. That's nothing new. They did it with Dairy Queen when I was in elementary school.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

We received free Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas for good grades when I was younger. Yum.

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
We received free Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas for good grades when I was younger. Yum.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
We received free Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas for good grades when I was younger. Yum.

wasn't it called the "reading for Pizza" progrm or something like. It ran over the summer and for every 10 or 12 books you read, you got a personal pan pizza or something?

 

[MovingTarget]

Heck, Krispy Kreme used to give you a free donut for getting an A on your report card. Thing is, they didn't get to advertise ON your report card when you got it. They just had a little sign at the counter. I'd rather have a donut than McDs anyday.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Box of Snickers bars, gift certificates for pizza...I got a few back in the mid-90s.

 

[GenHoth]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
We received free Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas for good grades when I was younger. Yum.

wasn't it called the "reading for Pizza" progrm or something like. It ran over the summer and for every 10 or 12 books you read, you got a personal pan pizza or something?

BookIt? That is the program I remember

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
We received free Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas for good grades when I was younger. Yum.

wasn't it called the "reading for Pizza" progrm or something like. It ran over the summer and for every 10 or 12 books you read, you got a personal pan pizza or something?

Nah, that was a different program, but we had that too.

 

[shiner]

Pathetic. How about the damn parents do their jobs and make sure the kids are studying, doing their homework and getting good grades instead of the schools handing out vouchers for hamburgers, pizzas, etc... to the kids in order to bride them to study?

Wait? What am I saying? Hell that would require some responsibility on the part of the parents instead of them relying on the school system to act like a nanny.

Nevermind...I guess I just lost my mind there for a minute and expected people to take an interest in their kids. What a dumbass I am.

 

[jjones]

It's interesting that McDonald's shows concerns over good grades considering their employee pool is made up of the educational rejects.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Pathetic. How about the damn parents do their jobs and make sure the kids are studying, doing their homework and getting good grades instead of the schools handing out vouchers for hamburgers, pizzas, etc... to the kids in order to bride them to study?

Wait? What am I saying? Hell that would require some responsibility on the part of the parents instead of them relying on the school system to act like a nanny.

Nevermind...I guess I just lost my mind there for a minute and expected people to take an interest in their kids. What a dumbass I am.

God forbid there would be some form of external motivation. Maybe a combination of the two would work even better than either alone. Inconceivable!

 

[NuclearNed]

Back in the day, a local arcade gave out tokens for games based on grades. It seems like an A = 2 tokens, B = 1 token.

I miss the golden age of arcades.

 

[Juno]

hell, i still prefer pizza hut reading thing. (haven't had one since maybe 3rd grade.)

 

[Quasmo]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
We received free Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas for good grades when I was younger. Yum.

wasn't it called the "reading for Pizza" progrm or something like. It ran over the summer and for every 10 or 12 books you read, you got a personal pan pizza or something?

It was called "Book It"

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: GenHoth

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
We received free Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas for good grades when I was younger. Yum.

wasn't it called the "reading for Pizza" progrm or something like. It ran over the summer and for every 10 or 12 books you read, you got a personal pan pizza or something?

BookIt? That is the program I remember

There ya go. I hated reading. My mother used to force me to participate X(

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Pathetic. How about the damn parents do their jobs and make sure the kids are studying, doing their homework and getting good grades instead of the schools handing out vouchers for hamburgers, pizzas, etc... to the kids in order to bride them to study?

Wait? What am I saying? Hell that would require some responsibility on the part of the parents instead of them relying on the school system to act like a nanny.

Nevermind...I guess I just lost my mind there for a minute and expected people to take an interest in their kids. What a dumbass I am.

God forbid there would be some form of external motivation. Maybe a combination of the two would work even better than either alone. Inconceivable!

It's better psychologically to imbue a sense of internal motivation for children. Obviously, it's still good to have a little external motivation, but it is best to minimize it and allow for internalization of the that motivation.

 

[PottedMeat]

Originally posted by: GuideBot

Originally posted by: GenHoth

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
We received free Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas for good grades when I was younger. Yum.

wasn't it called the "reading for Pizza" progrm or something like. It ran over the summer and for every 10 or 12 books you read, you got a personal pan pizza or something?

BookIt? That is the program I remember

There ya go. I hated reading. My mother used to force me to participate X(

BookIt wasn't bad. They also did the good grades for tokens thing around here too.

 

[BeauJangles]

2 or less absences

FEWER! We can't even get it right on report cards, jesus christ.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Pathetic. How about the damn parents do their jobs and make sure the kids are studying, doing their homework and getting good grades instead of the schools handing out vouchers for hamburgers, pizzas, etc... to the kids in order to bride them to study?

Wait? What am I saying? Hell that would require some responsibility on the part of the parents instead of them relying on the school system to act like a nanny.

Nevermind...I guess I just lost my mind there for a minute and expected people to take an interest in their kids. What a dumbass I am.

God forbid there would be some form of external motivation. Maybe a combination of the two would work even better than either alone. Inconceivable!

It's better psychologically to imbue a sense of internal motivation for children. Obviously, it's still good to have a little external motivation, but it is best to minimize it and allow for internalization of the that motivation.

Eh, there is an eternal debate over which is best. Most everything we do is based off of operant conditioning, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Edit: Not to mention, children have little capacity for internal motivation.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: GuideBot

Originally posted by: GenHoth

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
We received free Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas for good grades when I was younger. Yum.

wasn't it called the "reading for Pizza" progrm or something like. It ran over the summer and for every 10 or 12 books you read, you got a personal pan pizza or something?

BookIt? That is the program I remember

There ya go. I hated reading. My mother used to force me to participate X(

Yeap! That's it. My brain is not working today. I think i still have the BookIt coupons somewhere. I would do the reading (I just loved to read), but would never redeem the coupons. I earned a crap load of them too. so did my brother.

 

[skace]

Book It worked well. But it was a really small pizza for a real ton of reading. I mean you'd have to be an exceptionally motivated fat person to gain weight off that plan.

 

[compman25]

All I got for good grades was not being on restriction and no pain from not getting spanked for bad grades. Damn, I would have liked a cheeseburger.