I agree completely. Of course any extrinsic reward program has its problems. At my kids' school, the kids were rewarded for racking up family reading points--they got $1.00 of play money for every 20 minutes spent reading aloud; it was up to them whether they read to or were read to by a parent. They got to spend the money on, guess what--books. Not a bad idea. Of course, when the program was over, I trotted out the nightly book and one daugher said, "What do I need that for? The reading program is over." Can't win 'em all, I guess. But fortunately the attitude wore off rapidly.