Gold stars are purely about positive reinforcement, you don't get a black star for doing X. I seem to have less problem than others here about schools getting

Gold stars are purely about positive reinforcement, you don't get a black star for doing X. I seem to have less problem than others here about schools getting dictatorial etc, but to me the school is at least partially responsible for bringing up a functioning human being, so they do need to say what is acceptable or not. Obviously they need to do that in an acceptable way, gold stars seem like a good way. An app for recording every single detail good and bad, not so much.