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  • FRIDAY APRIL 22 2005 1:50 PM

I May Be a Snitch, But I'm a RICH Snitch

Submitted by thefreak

Edited by legionnaire

Coming soon to high schools across the country: getting paid for tattling on your classmates.

Many schools are implementing reward programs for students that give information about drugs or violence by other students.

Last week in central Georgia, the Houston County school board became the state's first school district to enroll in the national Student CrimeStoppers program, started in 1983. Students can earn up to $500 for alerting school officials about firearms. They can get up to $100 for fingering classmates involved in vandalism, theft or drugs.

Another Georgia school, Model High School in Rome, said last week it implemented a program that pays students up to $100 for information about thefts, drugs or guns on school property.


Some, however, feel that these programs could create more trouble than they cure.

Russ Skiba, professor of educational psychology at Indiana University in Bloomington...says he worries reward programs are a "knee-jerk reaction" to the school shooting in Red Lake, Minn.


Next up: Me collecting mad scratch from girls who broke my heart and made me write poems.

Gimme a frickin' break...

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freshprncebelair

freshprncebelair

Ellicott City, MD
June 2004

APR 22, 2005 01:53 PM

This could probably be money well spent.

But it will probably yield a lot of false accusations.

I personally would list the names of anyone wearing dreadlocks and a tie-dye shirt, and would probably have a good success rate.

dem_z

dem_z

United Kingdom
June 2004

APR 22, 2005 01:53 PM

I dunno, guns in school in the hands of children sounds like A Bad Thing(tm). I'm guessing that informers run a risk; why shouldn't they be rewarded for doing something good?

McBane13

McBane13

I'm lost
April 2004

APR 22, 2005 01:55 PM

I'm eagerly waiting to see the High School Equivalent of what happens when the Organized Crime Syndicate finds out they got snitched on for money.

wink

freshprncebelair

freshprncebelair

Ellicott City, MD
June 2004

APR 22, 2005 01:57 PM

demetrius_z said:
I dunno, guns in school in the hands of children sounds like A Bad Thing(tm). I'm guessing that informers run a risk; why shouldn't they be rewarded for doing something good?




Thsi will probably be able to catch the big time weapons and drugs kids. You know, the kind of kid who every kid knows has loads of drugs/guns, but teachers dont suspect or do anything.

monkeybutt

monkeybutt

I'm lost
May 2004

APR 22, 2005 01:59 PM

great, the homeland security department has infiltrated the schools.

Snottlebocket

Snottlebocket

Netherlands
March 2004

APR 22, 2005 02:02 PM

fingering the psychotic kid with the pistol might not be the healthiest thing to do.

reprobate

reprobate

New Orleans, LA
December 2002

APR 22, 2005 02:06 PM

skankzor said:
This could probably be money well spent.

But it will probably yield a lot of false accusations.

I personally would list the names of anyone wearing dreadlocks and a tie-dye shirt, and would probably have a good success rate.



And you'd be mysteriously discovered with half a lid of Humboldt Kind in your backpack shortly thereafter. At least at my High School.

papawheelie

papawheelie

Fisty, KY
February 2003

APR 22, 2005 02:09 PM

some kid told my principal i had speed once and i spent the whole day getting picked on and searched by the staff. they just assumed it was true and acted like it was all very real and when they realized it was bullshit they didn't even apologize or anything. it was like they thought i deserved it

theseeman

theseeman

Asheville, NC
December 2002

APR 22, 2005 02:34 PM

reprobate said:

skankzor said:
This could probably be money well spent.

But it will probably yield a lot of false accusations.

I personally would list the names of anyone wearing dreadlocks and a tie-dye shirt, and would probably have a good success rate.



And you'd be mysteriously discovered with half a lid of Humboldt Kind in your backpack shortly thereafter. At least at my High School.



No shit. Or shived. Let one kid take a dozen puncture wounds to the kidney with no witnesses and watch the lawsuits fly.

"My name is Tyree, and yeah, I went to prison!"

abracadabra

abracadabra

Seattle, WA
April 2004

APR 22, 2005 02:38 PM

this just in...doublespeak replaces english..

if

if

Providence, RI
April 2005

APR 22, 2005 02:40 PM



So that's how they could afford all that hair gel...

MrStitches

MrStitches

Brooklyn, NY
November 2003

APR 22, 2005 02:45 PM

Eh, this is nothing new. Like the article says, it's been around for 22 years. I'm sure it has it's ups and downs, but I don't see anything all that wrong with it. I'm all for guns and drugs, but not in school. There was a good piece on this a couple of days ago on "Here and Now" on NPR.

Keith

Keith

Hooker, OK
August 2002

APR 22, 2005 02:48 PM

First kid that rats out another kid like this will end up in the hospital, guaranteed.

ThisIsWhoWeAre

ThisIsWhoWeAre

Oakland, CA
July 2004

APR 22, 2005 02:54 PM

Snottlebocket said:
fingering the psychotic kid with the pistol might not be the healthiest thing to do.


I once talked a high school classmate out of shooting a teacher (who he felt mocked him) after school. He had the gun on him and everything. It was surreal.

The summer after he got caught stealing a car by a cop, and took a shot at the cop. The cop was a better shot, and shattered the kid's hip bone with a bullet.

He's still in prison.

joenobody

joenobody

I'm lost
December 2004

APR 22, 2005 03:38 PM

well, round these parts we ahve alittle saying... "snitches get stitches"

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