Noble Schools

Pay Up For Breaking School Rules CHICAGO, Illinois (Achieve3000, March 21, 2012). Noble Network is a group of 10 schools in Chicago, Illinois. Noble schools have few student problems. All Noble students dress neatly for school. There's plenty of chatter around the school. But there are no cell phones. There's also no messing around on the way to class. What's going on? School leaders say students have learned there is a price to pay for breaking rules.Noble Network charges students money for breaking school rules. How does the discipline program work? When students break a rule they get demerits. How many? Having a cell phone is four demerits. Having untied shoes is one demerit. Students with four demerits in two weeks pay $5. They also get a detention. Students who get 12 detentions in a year have to go to summer school. They take a class on how to follow the rules. The class costs $140. One school year, Noble took in $190,000 from its discipline program. School leaders say this helps pay for the program.Noble leaders say their program works. Kids learn how to follow rules. Some high schools have many student fights each year. That's not the case in Noble schools. They have about one fight a year. What else? School leaders say when students behave, they do better in their classes. And this seems to be true. Almost all Noble students go on to college. Still, some people do not like Noble's discipline program. They say it's unfair to students. Most students are from families that don't have much money. They say the program forces the kids who don't behave to leave the schools. That's because they can't pay the fines.Some families have taken their children out of Noble schools. Why? They couldn't keep paying the fines when their kids broke rules. Still, Noble leaders say they have set up ways for kids to pay. Sometimes students don't have to pay. Even so, some people say a fine is wrong. That's because it likely has nothing to do with students' work in school. It also hurts families that don't have much money. Instead, they'd like students to be rewarded for following the rules. Noble leaders say they're happy with the way things are going. They don't plan to change a thing. Besides, parents can send their kids to different schools if they want. What is Noble Network? When the author writes about the student’s clothes, he uses an adverb to describe how they wear them. What is it? A number of things happen when a student breaks the rules. What are they? True of false. The summer school is a bonus for very good students. (If your answer is false, please write the correct answer below) Check paragraph 3. Is academic performance better because of the discipline program? Paragraph 3. What do you think? Some people say that the system is unfair because children who don’t behave have to leave the school. Do you agree with this? Which sentence shows us that Noble Schools have lost some students becuase of this system? Pronouns – What noun do these pronouns replace. Example: Paragraph 2: students = they Pronoun Noun Paragraph 2: this Paragrah 3: they Paragrah 3: they Paragrah 4: It Match the sentences. This article tells us about a discipline system in Chicago schools. Noble leaders are happy because things are going well. By using this discipline system Noble Schools have collected a lot of money. Some parents didn’t like the system and sent their kids to another school. Students who get 12 detentions have to go to summer school. Dictionary check. Use your dictionary to check the following words. Vocabulary Kind of word Meaning detention merit neatly charge noble reward