Questions people ask
Short answers to the questions schools, teachers and families ask most.
About the program
Is this a reward system? In one sense: children earn points. But the points are for witnessed acts of goodness, not for sitting still or finishing work, and there is no prize store and no leaderboard. The reward is being seen, and a record the family keeps.
Who decided the points? Mohanji did, for every school: ten for an act, five for a peaceful week. Nobody at a school chooses an amount.
Is it religious? No. The program has no religious content. The acts of goodness are the ones every tradition and none would recognize: sharing, honesty, kindness, care for living things.
Does it replace what we already do for behavior? It sits alongside it. Other programs reward expected behavior; this one recognizes goodness beyond what was expected, and keeps deductions small, private and restorable.
For teachers
How long does recording take? About thirty seconds on a phone: the class, the child, the act, a line in your words. See Record an act.
Can I record something I did not see? No. Only the teacher who saw an act writes it down. If a colleague tells you about one, they record it.
What if I recorded it for the wrong child? Nothing is edited, so use "Question this entry" on the entry and the review board puts it right with a new entry. See Questions and the review board.
Can I take points away? No. Only the head of the school records a deduction, after a complaint has been given and checked. A teacher tells the counselor, or raises it through Review. See When something goes wrong.
For the counselor and the head
What is the way back? The counselor's three steps with a child after a deduction, Talk, Encourage and Correct, a consequence only if those were not enough, and then the repair. When the repair is written, the points come back. See The way back.
Can a family see the counselor's notes? No. A family sees the acts, the words the teacher wrote, the points, the peaceful weeks and, for a way back, the repair. The notes of the steps stay with the counselor and the head.
What does the review board do? Answers appeals and concerns within fourteen days, decides whether an entry stands, and holds the only key to a member's right to enter. See The review board.
For families
Why can I see only one child? Because that is the rule: your own child, nobody else's, and nothing about any child on any public page. If you have two children at the school, you receive one invitation for each.
Who else sees my child's record? The child's teachers, the counselor and the head of the school. Nobody outside the school, and no other family.
Can I question something? Yes, from your child's record: pick the entry, or raise a concern about anything, with or without your name. The school's review board answers within fourteen days. See Questions and concerns.
About the data
Who owns the data? The school. The Goodness Factor hosts it and processes it on the school's behalf, with no analytics, no ads and no trackers on any page.
Can an entry be changed quietly? No. Every entry is chained to the one before it, and each night the whole record is reduced to one fingerprint and timestamped by an independent public service. A hidden change would break the chain. See The record's integrity.
What happens when a child leaves? The child is marked as having left; their entries stay in the record as written, because nothing is ever deleted from it, and they no longer appear on any list or screen.