What is the version of a ”Golden star” in your country, if there is one?

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1. I don’t think we have anything like that, or at least my school didn’t.

2. We have the “Bienchen” meaning little bee. Because the honey bee is supposed to be very hard working and diligent.

3. we get a plus (+), few of them make a bonus grade.

   >Parrot badge or Parrot mark

   that would have a negative ring to it in Poland. Parroting in polish means mindlessly imitating someone. It’s always used in a negative sense

4. I think it’s safe to say it’s not a thing here. Some teachers give you a “plus” next to your name in their register, and those pluses usually count towards your mark at the end of the semester/year.

5. You get a smile and that’s it. Honestly I never heard of a Gold star or whatever, the closest I ever got was when a teacher gave some candies to the kid who got the hardest question.

6. >In Finland we say ”Papukaijamerkki” (Parrot badge or Parrot mark)

   This saying goes back to 1960’s. There was a children’s program called Sirkus Papukaija aka The Parrot Circus (a circus called Parrot that is).

   In the program people had to find hidden parrot badges. Oftentimes these badges were dropped from an airplane. If you return them to the studio, you win a prize.

   So saying that you earn a parrot badge means that you’ve done something worthy a prize.

7. Really depends on the school. There’s no unified system. My daughter got smileys up until grade 4, my nieces and my nephew didn’t/don’t get anything.

8. My homeroom teacher in 3rd and 4th grade gave out desert roses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_rose_(crystal)) if someone did some thing exceptional in class. Aside from that we didn’t get any reward, except for a better participation grade.

9. We have the little star = ‘Sternderl’ – grown ups like to say sarcastically ‘wow, you’ll get a little star’ when somebody is finally doing the dishes or another basic task.

10. If you answer a question correctly the teacher will ask you more questions until you answer incorrectly and give you an F, unless they see you have all A’s in other subjects.

11. In my philosophy a level we got stickers of various philosophers if you got an A on your coursework.

12. We got a “pluim” which means as much as a plume (bundle of feathers).

    Could have been a local thing though.

13. When I was a kid the teacher would give us small pictures to collect, they would represent many things, often famous monuments or animals.

14. We used to have the star system until around age 8. Its a much better system than ranking and sorting children by grading them. It also reduces bullying, stigma and elitism.

    This was over 50 years ago when times were more egalitarian.

15. Finn here (don’t know what happened to my flair) but anyway in elementary school which for me means late seventies to eighties the homeroom teacher had many different animal stamps not just parrots they used to stamp tests with, e.g. you could get giraffes or kittens.

16. Depends on teacher, but they do either + (plus), * (hvězdička) or podtržení _, its a line under the number. Also our grades are 1,2,3,4,5 and not A-F. All 3 of those are also only with 1s (As)

17. In Spain we don’t usually have anything like that, but it depends on what the school or the individual teacher wants to do. I’ve seen green stickers or smileys on the kid’s hand, but both are pretty rare. What is more common is having “positivos” and “negativos” in elementary school or high school. They are a positive or negative symbol on a list that usually influence the mark you get in that subject. Again, this depends on the school and the teacher, who also decide how much these symbols influence the mark.