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11 Abideen Jallow

Why students should get paid for good grades

I think students should get paid for good grades. If kids get paid for A’s, B’s, and 1’s in effort it will encourage kids to work harder. The students will participate more in class to get good grades on the report card if they get paid. I think when kids get paid they have a good chance of coming back to school everyday. There for improving a school’s overall attendance rate.

I know not everyone will agree with my opinion, like my math teacher Mrs.Vanreenan. I still respect her as a teacher even though we have different opinions. She said, “No, getting good grades should feel good for the student and help drive them to continue to do better. They have plenty of years for earning money on a job”. I respect this opinion but I still think kids should get paid for good grades because the have a better chance of doing more hard work than talking.

Mrs.Moy also disagreed with my opinion and said, we could earn a reward or privileges. Mrs.Moy said, “No I do not think kids should get paid for good grades. However, I do think that kids should be rewarded for working hard and making their goals. These rewards can be privileges rather than money. I believe kids should be responsible for household chores as well as quality schoolwork in order to earn rewards or privileges”. So that tells me we can get paid from our parents for doing chores or making them proud and to get privileges to do something for doing something good.

I do think those are some good descriptions on why the don’t think kids should get paid. If students get paid they would appeal saving their money for good reasons like college or the can even set a goal to reach with the money. Students should get paid also for willing or would do a great job on homework or class work. I think if kids get paid the will also be more respectful to adults and behave and that will rise the all on green award, principal award math award reading award (etc.)

Kids will be responsible for their piers if they get paid like turning in their work on time etc. If kids are responsible for their piers they will get great grades on the progress report. If kids get good grades on the report card they might do the same next year and might write a reasons to still get paid.

__LIZARDS A BOOK REVIEWED BY ABIDEEN JALLOW AUTHOR NIC BISHOP__

Did you ever know different types of lizards lead lives that are full of surprises? In the story Lizards, there are different types of lizards that do amazing things to protect them selves, catch prey or adapt. In Lizards there is a chameleon who changes color to blend in with its surroundings and waits there until it sees its prey. So it sticks out its lo long tongue and flick the insects eaten. The book is non-fiction/informational. The pictures are very vivid, incredible they look real and you feel like you can just touch the animal. If you could see the picture of the reptile hatching from an egg it looks like its right in front of you. The author actually took pictures of the lizards in the book and it was difficult to find some he traveled around the world. The Basilisk lizard can run on water because of its webbed feet. The Komodo dragon is the worlds largest venomous animal. I wonder why the Komodo dragon has a snake-like tongue but bigger? I would recommend this book to readers 8 and over because it has interesting facts and has juicy descriptive words. Also, in the text says Thorny Devils shoot blood from their eyes and other animals do gross things that might gross out kids younger than 8. The facts in this book are very detailed. There are also other pictures of animals camouflaging to hide from predators and open flap pictures. Only 2. When I saw the chameleon on the front page I wonder why the lizard had a horn(s) where the nose is located? My favorite part is the description of the author it tells where he found some of the lizards, what he had to do to get a picture of the animal doing something amazing. The story Lizards reminds me of the article called Adventures in the wild because the book talks about the Thorny Devil and Blue-Tailed Skink as in Lizards. I love this book because of the pictures and information. Read this book to learn more about different types of lizards, and look at the extraordinary pictures and maybe read about the author.

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