Even gold stars, aren’t they outdated? In France we used to have “Remise des prix” until the 1980’s (It was prizes for the best in class in each category... wel

Even gold stars, aren’t they outdated? In France we used to have “Remise des prix” until the 1980’s (It was prizes for the best in class in each category... well everyone had a prize, the worst student generally had “the prize of friendship”. See “Le Petit Nicolas” for fun descriptions of that times). But we stopped giving prizes because they generally made the children jealous, competitive or lack confidence. Our current civilization has changed, now we emphasize more on collaboration than individual performance, at least in public statements. For example we prefer to give a collective performance at the end of the year than rewarding for behavior.