PBIS Rewards Family Hack 3.1.04 + Redeem Codes

This app promotes a token economy where students are incentivized (i.e. conditioned) towards some desired behavior. Children quickly learn to leverage their behavior in order to get a desired trinket. Some will behave poorly to raise the value of the trinket offered in exchange for the desired behavior. Sustained over a school career, children learn (are conditioned) to manipulate others to get what they want. They feel they are entitled to a prize for every small desired action. I am not in favor of an app that teaches my children to behave only so far as they are getting something for it.

Also, the design is...not good.

Just wanted to add anther perspective. I think it’s a great app of it does what it’s supposed to do, which is encourage children to behave in class so that teachers can teach. Sure, it would be wonderful if all children behaved appropriately out of the kindness of their heart. However, that’s not what happens, realistically, in a classroom full of children with very different needs and patterns of behavior. There’s no one size fits all and teachers need all the tools necessary to manage a classroom of children who come from many households, who have many unique parenting styles, behavior management styles, etc. This is simply a tool. Some kids will behave anyway, without a point system. Some kids need an extra incentive to behave, outside of just the desire to follow the rules because it’s the right thing to do. I taught for two years and goodness, that was the hardest thing ever because every child is different and I had to use a wide variety of behavior management techniques. Guess what, points/reward systems worked for many students. Additionally, even as adults at work it feels good when our bosses recognize and reward our hard work. Yes, you should do a great job at work just to be a good employee, but man does it feel good to get a gift/accolades for doing my best. And yes, some efforts may go unnoticed, as in the real world.

The app worked for the first week of school. Without any prompting on my part my wife and I both lost connection to our child. I read on her to press the reconnect button and all that did is make it so the app only shows the scan to add button. Still no child and no reconnect button. Not sure why our school switched to this by class dojo did not have these problems.

My daughter has an iep and this is part of it. I like the idea of having the ability to see what is going on during the day but my problem is that I get no information from any of the teachers except referrals. It doesn’t show that she is earning her points or anything else. All I get is negative information. Fix these bugs to where I can see her progress and I will be glad to update my review score.

The app tells me I have a notification but not where to FIND the notification once I’ve opened the app. Not a huge deal but relatively annoying. Other than that, it seems fine.

Got a notification. When I open the app the only choice I get is to add a student. Both my kids have already been added. Very frustrating!!!!! Now it’s me won’t let me give a review without a nickname and they are all taken. Now even more frustrated. I do not recommend this app.

All of a sudden the app took away all of my kids that I had attached to my parent account (without signing out) and asks me to scan the codes to add them. But I still see the messages the teachers send me…

I was using this app for both of my kids. Since the recent update I can’t log back in. Also very confusing when trying to use the website. Could not login on website either.

This app doesn’t even work and their is no way to log in from a parents view. Why even have something that doesn’t work. I have never been able to log in because it’s so faulty!

Since the update I can’t log in. Us parents didn’t get an email with a barcode, it was a hard copy that has been lost to the ether.