Friday, June 26, 2009

Bribe Kids, and They Will Do Anything

Including read. A New Zealand school is now experiencing what all of us who participated in the Pizza Hut "Book It!" program already knew: If you give a kid a prize, they will flip through a few books.

Only their prizes, in my humble opinion, are bigger motivators. I mean, 10 chapter books and I get a personal pan pizza? Really? Still hongry.

Read the article in The Guardian about the new prize program. The checkouts at their library have nearly doubled.

2 comments:

Piyush said...

You always hongry.

Andrea said...

Hell to the yeah what up Book-It! Of course, I think I was the only nerd who actually read books to get my personal pan. The other kids just lied. Commies.