mc215+Citizenship+Credits

Dear Mr. Swan,

One school has introduced a program called Citizenship Credits to their school. This program lets kids tell on other kids for extra credit points to their grade. Board members may think that this is a great idea and it will promote good things at our school, but others believe that this is a horrible idea and it can do horrible things for the school and everyone in it. Maybe that's the reason that only one school has decided to this. I believe that Citizenship Credits should not be introduced at Bedminster School.

You might think that a lot of reports for the office is good, but it it can lead to many bad things. Having too many reports may also lead to misconceptions or talking about one incident in another incident. Also, it takes away class time for the kids who have been punished. Huh. I thought that Citizenship Credits were supposed to help kids get good grades; isn't that weird. Lastly, it is going to take a lot of time from the principal and vice principal as well. What if something really important was going to happen and the principal was busy yelling at some kid for two hours. Wouldn't that stink?

With Citizenship Credits, lots of snitching would happen around our school and any other school that decides to also do Citizenship Credits. You know what snitching is the same as? Tattling! Tattling is the most annoying and useless waste of time for anyone that is a part of it. Ever hear the phrase "nobody likes a tattler"? I have and that phrase is definitely right; nobody likes a tattler. Some parents may actually like tattlers, but most parents do not and by most parents, I mean everyone except for maybe one out of every hundred, never mind thousand people! Snitching may also turn into lying. Again, nobody likes a liar either! All they do is spread rumors and then those rumors get bigger and then that one kid can't control the rumor and make it stop because of how many people know about it. And then what do you know? It turns into bullying. Isn't bullying the reason that people wanted Citizenship Credits in the first place. If you even got this far into my essay, you already know all the bad things about Citizenship Credits, and I still have one more reason.

My last reason about how bad Citizenship Credits is that it may break up lots and lots of friendships. Friends may turn on each other because one kid told on the other one for doing something bad. Again, wasn't Citizenship Credits so people would make even more friends and be happier in school. There could also be tons of fighting about who turned in who and the next thing you know you have people beating each other up just for the truth. Lastly, drama would start. Drama is the one thing that can single-handedly destroy an entire grade really fast. It has destroyed grades at other schools and I don't want that to happen at Bedminster. You may still think that Citizenship Credits are great, but they can do so many things to destroy not just one grade, but the entire school.

Even though Citizenship Credits may do one little good thing at a school, they do way more bad things than good. They may help bullying at your school go down, but more likely, there is going to be about three times as much bullying as before, and we all know that bullying is a bad thing. Bullying is going to start because of Citizenship Credits, and I thought Citizenship Credits were supposed to help even though I think that they do the opposite. Don't you want to protect all of the kids at you school? If you want to protect the kids at your school, Citizenship Credits are a terrible idea.

Sincerely,

Max C.