{"id":10693,"date":"2012-07-25T11:43:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=10693"},"modified":"2012-07-31T17:44:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T21:44:41","slug":"the-secret-lives-of-students-points-for-good-behavior-but-not-enough-for-busch-gardens-field-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/25\/the-secret-lives-of-students-points-for-good-behavior-but-not-enough-for-busch-gardens-field-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Lives of Students: Points For Good Behavior, But Not Enough For Busch Gardens Field Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10769\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/25\/the-secret-lives-of-students-points-for-good-behavior-but-not-enough-for-busch-gardens-field-trip\/woodolphs-pic\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10769\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10769\" title=\"Woodolphs pic\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/07\/Woodolphs-pic-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/07\/Woodolphs-pic-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/07\/Woodolphs-pic-620x412.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Breakthrough Miami<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woodolph Myrtil, 12, says he feels like a bad student when he doesn&#39;t get selected to go on school field trips. <\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>For today\u2019s installment in our series, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/secret-lives-of-students\/\">The Secret Lives of Students<\/a>, one student writes about being left out of school field trips.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: This post was written by middle school student Woodolph Myrtil.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Woodolph Myrtil, 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One problem at my school is that only the Top 200 PBS (point based system) point leaders get to go to Busch Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>PBS points are an effective system where students get \u201cpoints\u201d for having positive behavior in class.<\/p>\n<p>Such as when you tuck in your shirt when a grown-up tells you to. Or if the whole class goes wild and you\u2019re the only one being calm.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not fair because the people who are not a part of the Top 200 can\u2019t go on the field trip. Also not getting to go on that trip makes my mom think I\u2019m not doing well when I am being a good student.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After that I got bad grades because I wasn\u2019t the top 200 to get to go on the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing is people who don\u2019t do their work get to go just because they got a lot of points by going to Saturday school.<\/p>\n<p>I know you might think that why I did not go to Saturday school; well I don\u2019t have time during Saturday because I am busy sleeping or I have a doctor\u2019s appointment or I have basketball practice.<\/p>\n<p>They said members from the basketball team would get a free 300 points, but they never did.<\/p>\n<p>So only 200 \u201clucky\u201d people got to go on the trip in Tampa and I could not do anything about it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Myrtil is a student at North Miami Middle School.\u00a0<\/em><em>During the summer school program with Breakthrough Miami, she attends the Miami County Day school campus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>All month we\u2019ll hear from students about life in Florida schools. They\u2019ll open up about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/11\/the-secret-lives-of-students-when-school-rules-conflict-with-home-rules\/\">conflicting home and school rules on fighting<\/a>, being <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/23\/the-secret-lives-of-students-hungry-students-want-larger-school-lunches\/\">hungry at school<\/a>, feeling <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/16\/the-secret-lives-of-students-one-building-two-schools\/\">left out of academic programs<\/a>,\u00a0and other aspects of school\u00a0life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For today\u2019s installment in our series, The Secret Lives of Students, one student writes about being left out of school field trips.<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s note: This post was written by middle school student Woodolph Myrtil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[383,597,556],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10794,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions\/10794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}