hr115+Citizenship+Credits

Dear Mr Swan,

Schools are starting to offer Citizenship Credits. What is that? It is an effort to reduce violence at school. They are credits that are given to students, when they report some one for bad behavior. These credits can be collected and dealed in for extra points on your final grade. If you collected enough credits, you can raise your report card by one or two points. But, is this a good thing? You might think yes, but I think the opposite. Do you think it would be a good addition to Bedminster School? The Citizenship Credits would not be a good adaptation to our school.

Some people if they don't get the points at first, will blow it off, and stop trying. Would you? A lot of people have a high temper and if they think they are trying hard enough to get the credits, they should get them. So that if they don't get it, they will give up. If you are in a bad mood, and you receive no credits, you might start acting inappropriately. Imagine you work up a good record, and the week before report cards come you do one thing wrong and you get your credits taken away, you might stop trying because you think its unfair. Are you quick to give up on something? Would you just blow it off? You might think that this is an amazing idea, but students will start to take advantage of this.

Writing up your friends can break your friendship. It can demolish your friendship. It will see who your true friends are. It will show you how they show respect to others. If your friend is misbehaving and you write them up, they will probably think twice before doing anything in front of you. Your friends are people you can rely on to save you when your getting in trouble, not snitch on you. Imagine if you tell your friend a story about what this bully said to you, and somebody else hears, but you don't know that they heard, and the person who overheard writes you up. You will probably blame it on your friend and lose them. It will be hard to stick up to your friends, but you have to do whats right.

Extra points won't help you learn what you need to. When your failing a class, you would just write people up to boost your grade, but you won't learn what your learning about. Students will start to slack off in class, and rely on the credits to save them. You will study less for big tests, and even small tests or quizzes, because you feel like the points will save you. Trust me, they wont. Are you one of those people who will slack off and except this too boost your grade? Think again. Maybe some teachers would give the student credit, but if I was a teacher, and my student was slacking off, I wouldn't give them any credit.

Some students would try to get this for their academics, but others would try to receive it to brag, which some tattle-tails would write them down for. I strongly think that people are going to take this way out of proportion. They will start rumors to get credits. Also, people will come to school looking for someone to report instead of focusing on their class. This will drop their grades and the pattern continues. Do you think you would end up dropping your grades because of this? I don't think the Citizenship Credits would be a good addition to Bedminster School. No babies shouldn't get bonuses.

From, Harley

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