<p>I can’t imagine too many teachers who would put up with daily celebrations. What could they possibly be celebrating everyday? I understand the desire to celbrate birthdays but even if every family did it, it would only be ~25 times a year, assuming 25 kids in the class. In our experience, maybe half of the families would do something like that. And competition never entered into it because, frankly, how would the moms even know what someone brought in? As part of the beginning of the year communication, the teachers would let families know the ‘rules’ about such things, including dietary restrictions, and that one item per child was the maximum, so that there wouldn’t be the possibility for any type of competition, even if someone were so inclined and could find out how to compete! ;)</p>
<p>sokkermom, that reward system boggles my mind. I know that if that had occurred in any school my kids attended, the parents would have put a stop to it very quickly. Didn’t anyone object?</p>