Well, as I've said already, you'd hope so. However, it does require not only all the parents at the school to behave rationally, it also presupposes that none of them have a beef with the school about something else and have been looking for a stick to beat them with. I'm not as convinced as you...
I was expecting a flaming, so thanks for seeing the point! I'd agree with your rebuttal if we can believe that all parents of primary school kids are rational beings with decent levels of empathy. But we know that regrettably, sometimes they're not.
However, to be clear - I do believe that...
It's a total PR disaster, but I can absolutely understand why they've scrapped the scheme going forward. When designing incentive schemes, clarity and fairness are absolutely essential; without those two things you're asking for permanent binfests. The only way this scheme could have been...