Positive Reinforcement

The Sisters believed in positive reinforcement at SAA. We used a "X" system and the worst possible thing that could happen to you as a student is that you could receive an X. The reward for not having an X's at the end of the month was that we got to wear normal clothes on the day that we went home instead of our usual school uniforms. You could receive an X for many different reasons. Being out of your room past lights out, not cleaning your room on a daily basis, not completing housework chores, etc. Mostly the X system was used on the outside classroom side of things. We received dt's if we did something wrong during class time and you had to go down to the creepy school library which was in the basement of the old part of the school, which was haunted (you may be laughing at this but it is true I've seen one!!) and usually it was just you and cranky Sr. Helen (who was kinda creepy in her own way lol). I think that if we didn't have the X system, none of us really would of taking the responsibility of cleaning our rooms and going to bed on time. It taught us housework and essentially discipline.