Read-A-Thon dilemma…?

Asked by raum (13206) February 19th, 2022 from iPhone

So our school is having a read-a-thon. Students are asked to input their minutes online. And there’s a leaderboard where you can see how many minutes each class has read.

Last year, some kids were inputting more hours than there were during the day. The adults on the read-a-thon committee called them out on it. And it got a little ugly.

This year the committee said they would not be doing that again. And asked that parents look over the minutes that their students are entering.

Though it seems to be happening again. There are two classes that are 20,000+ minutes ahead of their closest contender.

So…dilemma. We don’t want a repeat of last year. But do we want to reward cheating?

What would you do?