Diary of a 5th Grade Outlaw Book 14: The Bucks Bandit
On the way to school today I was thinking about how those kids were reacting My classmates didn’t seem to mind not getting bucks for doing good things around the classroom but not getting bucks for good grades really bugged some kids you're saying I don't get any bucks for these A+ A A-
Still without Nadia’s unfair playground tax kids shouldn’t really be worried about whether they have enough bucks or not Yeah Principal Roberta has cool prizes and they’ll be harder to get if bucks aren’t being given out so freely I could see why kids were bummed that they couldn’t win them as fast as they could before But it’s not like they can’t still get them It had turned into more of a raffle system Sometimes you got them sometimes you didn’t I didn’t think it was a big deal to not get as many 3
Maybe I didn’t mind because I didn’t usually get bucks for my grades because mine are only okay And even though I did usually get bucks for doing nice things I did those things because they were the right thing to do not because it meant that I would get bucks Plus if the teachers and Principal Roberta weren’t worried about the missing bucks why should we be worried My gut told me something was up but I knew I had to ignore that feeling All of my other thoughts made more sense But yeah It turned out that 5
