How does your school encourage school spririt and self esteem in the children? Our school, Liberty Elementary, has a system that I think needs changed. The way it works now is every month a few kids from each class are picked as Liberty Pride. Each child receives a certificate and a small prize, such as a button or zipper pull etc.. Then, at the end of each month, at lunchtime each child that was Liberty Pride gets a cookie and gets to sit at a special table. They are also encouraged to have their families come to eat with them. Pictures are taken of the children and put up on a special bulletin board. There is no rhyme or reason to how a child is picked to be Liberty Pride, and by the end of the year each child will of been Liberty Pride. For the K-2 I think the system works fine, but for the older kids, they aren't all that excited about it. They don't want to sit at the special tables at lunchtime. They usually come over and get their cookie and then go eat with their friends, and rarely does any parents show up to eat with the kids. I am trying to come up with a better way. I don't think each child should just get to be Liberty pride for no reason. There should be some incentive, such as helping people, good grades, or whatever. I was also thinking that instead of the cooke at lunch each month, it should be more fun, such as getting to go out to eat somewhere or getting to do a special activity. Anyways, I would love an input or ideas you may have. How does it work at your schools? Thank you.