fm115+Persuasive+Essay

Dear Mr. Swan,

Most people think that having the Citizenship Credits policy would be a horrible idea. They think that it would be tattling, snitching, and being mean to their friends. Well, I disagree. Reporting kids would lower the amount of bullying happening in our school and prevent it in the future. Our school should have the Citizenship Credits policy to help turn our school into a safer and better learning environment.

If we adopt the Citizenship Credits policy, it would reduce language, violence, and bullying. At first, you might think that this policy would have no impact, but you will change your after you hear these reasons. First off, if a kid got reported for using inappropriate language once, they would come up with other words to say and refrain from using unseemly words. Another reason is that kids will find other ways to take out their anger instead of beating up and purposely injuring other students. An example of this is someone using a rubber stress ball instead of a human stress ball. Also, students would not want to bully other kids because more people would see and report them. If this policy happened, there would be a better chance of bullies getting caught when they are bulling in front of other students and the teachers are not there.

Another good thing would be that the points earned from reporting bad behavior would help kids raise their grades for their good deeds. If you were about two points away from high honor roll and you saw someone doing something they should not be, you could achieve high honor roll. For example, I know someone who was only point six away from making high honor roll. There was a lot of bad behavior going on that he could have reported for extra points. In the end, he did not make high honor roll and no teachers knew about the bad behavior, either. It's natural to think that getting extra points to report bad behavior would be unfair, but they actually did. It takes a lot to report someone you know for their bad behavior, and it just made teachers lives much easier. Now you won't have to worry about watching for bad behavior as much.

The best thing that could come from this is that when we report other kids who do bad things now, it will set a good example for them in the future. Basically, it will turn good behavior into a good habit. You may not know how this will work, but this example will give you the information you need to know. This policy would help us make better choices in the future, having been taught this through our school policy of good behavior. Lets say that a kid in school just walks by other kids who were getting bullied everyday, not bothering to do anything. In the future, if they saw someone getting beat up, they would just keep walking. But this policy would make kids report incidents which will help them to be better citizens in the future.

Even though some kids think it would be a bad idea to have the Citizenship Credits policy, I believe that it would help our school become a healthier atmosphere for academic studies. You might think that it is mean to report someone you know for their bad behavior, but doing this might prevent them from doing something like that again. You may not think that it is a good idea to let kids report bad behavior. Why can't we just let the teachers handle it? But, teachers are not always going to hear things, see things, or be aware of things that kinds do, so that is why we need other kids to take up this important responsibility. With this new policy, our school would become a much better climate for learning.

Sincerely, Finn M.