EDITORIAL: Ninth graders fear lack of lion loot

Lion Loot is a small piece of paper, like a tickets or a coupon given by the teachers as a reward for good actions. Students in level 3/3.5 get Lion Loot every day in seventh and eighth grade, by the end of the year most of them have almost 80! The now ninth graders are wondering, “Where did all the Lion Loot go?“
During the new school year, in ninth grade, not having changed their actions, most only have five lion loot, and it’s the second marking period. Students have taken notice. They are all asking themselves, ”Am I doing something wrong?”
It is significant for kids to collect these pieces of paper to ‘pay’ at the ROAR Store or use them to go to see a movie in the school which costs about 10 Lion Loot. The Jr. High also does Recess Day and other fun activities where students also need a certain amount of Lion Loot to attend. At the beginning of the year, there was a large assembly about doing good deeds and being rewarded for them with Lion Loot. Now the ninth graders are worried they are getting unfair treatment and are contemplating the significance of it.
The homerooms each made up skits to reinforce with their peers the good actions that would deserve Lion Loot. The students acted out things like picking up other people’s messes, saying please and thank you to teachers and each other, helping the teachers in the classroom and participating in class.
Those basic things are being done on a daily basis by ninth grade students, but do they get Lion Loot for those kinds of actions? No. The only time there is Lion Loot is when these students get 100% on a test, which is almost impossible. Ninth grade teachers also give it out when they are desperate for someone to raise their hand and when there is a quiet class. Every time the teachers would ask someone for a favor, many students volunteer in hopes of a Lion Loot but a lot of these opportunities , according to the helpers, get missed by the teachers.
It seems as if problem students often get more lion loot. If these students do one good deed or get one good grade they are rewarded. On the other hand those who try to be respectful day in and day out and work hard every day go unnoticed.
It is understood students need a positive reinforcement but when movie day comes, every day average and performing kids might not be able to go because of lack of Lion Loot. The only time upper level ninth graders seem to have a lot of loot is when they take a specific class and one teacher is committed to passing it out.
Perhaps an alternative could be established for students with teachers who don’t have Lion Loot as a reward crossing their minds or don’t like to give them out. Lion Loot should not be eliminated, but possibly students could have a different reward for different reasons. For example, being allowed to attend reward movies could only be for those that made Honor Roll in the previous marking period or rewards for perfect attendance or even rewards for those with good grades in certain classes.
Don’t give up ninth graders.
Don’t give up 9th graders
lolzor good thing im in eighth grade
I disagree with the 3 and 3.5 kids getting lion loot everyday.
I disagree with 3 AND 3.5 kids getting lion loot everyday because every student should be rewarded for great behavior everyday.
don’t give up try harder
Keep trying 9th grade and do your best and don’t give up.
Good luck 9th graders.
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good luck
I feel the same way
Lion Loot is basically nonexistent… No one has gotten any for getting 100 on a test that I know of. Is the lion loot invisible this year?
I completely agree.
I agree with this. Ninth graders try just as hard as seventh graders, yet we get far less lion loot than them. In fact, it is also affecting the eighth graders too. As we went up grade levels, we are getting less and less lion loot. Come on, we work hard and do good deeds like the school asks, so give us lion loot. If we are not being awarded for good deeds, then we would stop doing them and start having bad behavior, since it gets us just as much lion loot as being good.
There really hasn’t been a lot of lion given out this year…
I agree that 9th grade teachers aren’t giving out as much lion loot as they should. Students have been told that they will be givien lion loot for any good deeds that they do. The students do good things and they don’t get lion loot for it so they tell their teachers about it and the teachers say that they will give them out next time they see something good. So the students continue to do good things and the teachers still don’t give out lion loot. I think something should be done.
I completely agree on this. There has been a major decrease on the amount of Lion loot we get per year.
their is the roar store movie days recess day and we dont get lion loot. they created lion loot as a reward for good deeds and good behavior. well were is the lion loot? I dont see the kids getting lion loot do you. To me it’s a waste of paper,money,and trees. Its not right