sp215+Citizenship+Credits+Essay

**Dear Mr. Swan**
==**Have you ever seen kids been tattled on? Isn't it annoying? Well, the Citizenship Credits policy gives you points on your report card just for telling on someone! How ridiculous is that!? Sure, it may reduce bullying a //little// bit, but it will just turn every kid in the school into a tattling 6- year- old! You probably can see now why Bedminster School should absolutely not adopt the Citizenship Credits policy. **==

==**First of all, p eople can lie and start rumors just to get the points. Say that a student's enemy wants to get them gin trouble. They may purposely say something along the lines of, "(So- and- so) beat me up yesterday. Therefore, instead of stopping bullying, it may just increase lying and rumor- spreading. If someone is failing a class, they may lie about everyone in the class and walk out of the room with an A+ that they didn't even earn! Even if every student in the school got High Honor Roll, talk about dumb! {Miss D alay ? Srinaath said the D- U- M word!} **==

==**Another flaw in the policy is that tattletales will be in swarms throughout the whole school. Students around the school may just be telling on everyone. It's possible that this may cause bullies to be more wary at school, but more likely it will cause kids to not pay attention to anything else. In second grade, I remember that a few people would tattle on everyone for absolutely no reason. For crying out loud, the whole school is not a second- grade classroom!!! I mean, would you want someone to tattle on someone because they accidentally coughed in the area of their 20- foot- diameter personal space bubble? Of course not! **==

==**The fact that misconceptions can happen is a very important reason for why the Citizenship Credits policy is not a great idea. If someone does something that seems to be misbehaving, like looking up images on the Internet when the teacher's talking, but is actually not (like if the teacher asked them to), they may be in trouble for no reason. Then, the principal has to take time out of his busy schedule to sort things out. If a student falls and hurts themselves and say a word that they don't mean to say in the presence of a tattletale. They would end up being reported. Although it has its goods, the policy can cause all of this and could be prevented if the it never existed in the first place! **==

==**Even though the policy has a good idea as a foundation, ultimately, the cons outweigh the pros. Bullying may occur once in a while, or a burst of bad language may be audible here and there, but which is worse: The occasional slip? Or lying and tattling? The latter, of course, which is why Bedminster School definitely should not adopt the Citizenship Credits policy. **==