jll115+Citizenship+Credits

Dear Mr.Swan,

I believe that Bedminster School should not have Citizenship Credits. Citizenship Credits are is when you provide information about someone in the school breaking the rules. The Credits can be collected and can be redeemed into extra grade points. If we got Citizenship Credits, some problems will be solved but new ones will begin. Grades won’t matter to anyone anymore with the credit points, and kids always miss hear or see things so kids would go tell without knowing what really happen.To top all that kids will lie on what they saw all the time for the points. Do you want this to happen at your school?

You can easily miss hear or see something for me that's almost everyday. Why do police interview a lot of people? Because a lot of people miss see or hear stuff every single day. When my dad was in middle school my dad and his friend Eddie were messing around and my dad pulled the strings on his Hoodie and one kid told the principal because he though he was picking on Eddie so my dad got detention because one kid miss saw something. Say a kid named Casey and her friend Georgia were talking and a kid though Georgia said I hate you to Casey and instead she said I'll take you because Caccy had no ride to somewhere. A lot of kids will just listen to others peoples conversations while there working on a worksheet or project and miss hear stuff or see something because there trying to do two thing at once.

Kids wont study because of all the extra points you get. Kids would use the extra points so that they don't have to study for test or quizzes, then how will they learn. You can be a A+ student and work really hard and another kid can also be an A+ student without trying. Its unfair. No one will do homework they can just take the points and get credit that they didn't do and don't deserve to have. All grades would just be messed up and kids wont know what they need to work on to become a better student.

Everyone would just lie I mean they need the extra points so why not lie about something is what kids will be thinking. How can you tell when someone lies about something? That's the problem you cant kids want the extra points so they will lie and you cant tell sometimes if its the truth. Someone named Landon might say a kid named Jaden kicked a kinder gardener because it was a really slow day and everyone was good so no one can say he didn't if they weren't there if it really never happen. Imagine a kid named Joe knew that a guy named Jimmy that gets in trouble a lot so he pretended that Jimmy said that he will spread rumors about him if he didn't do his homework for him. Its the perfect lie if someone gets in trouble like almost every day, so the principal would believe him. While its true that some kids wont lie, you also need consider that a lot of kids who lie.

These are just a few reasons why we shouldn't have Citizenship Credits. Most kids will do take advantage of this systems. This might stop bulling but would cause a lot more problems, and kids would have to be taken out of class to talk with the principal and teachers would hate that. Bulling is a problem that some people just don't care about but they should. In every system there's good outcomes and bad ones this one just has too much bad outcomes. I still think that Bedminster should not have Citizenship Credits.

Sincerely, Josie L.