My Speech

Lawrence Area School should not have a pet. It sounds like a great idea, all cuddly, cute and furry, but the reality is not like that at all. It would be chaos and let me tell you why.

Pets are hard work and they have very annoying habits that are not good for at school. If we had a school pet it would run away. For example a cat  might jump out the door and run away, or a dog might escape from the school gate and disappear.

A dog might also jump over the school fence and get hit by a car. This would not be a good ending for a school pet, that would be 140 sad kids.   A dog would also scavenge for food at morning tea and lunch. He would always be hanging around kids trying to eat their food out of their hands.

A pet might sound like a good idea right now, but who would take it home in the holidays or on the weekends and who would feed it? It takes a lot to look after a pet properly. We would have to be responsible for it at school and then someone would have to be responsible for it at home.

It would be hard to have turns looking after it, I mean how would we bring it back home, then back to school? We might go on a bus and pets aren't allowed them on a bus. Plus we have to think about the food. Your mum would have to buy the food for the cat or dog while it stayed with you and that might make them cross.

Then we have the sticky subject of pet mess. A cat or dog will poop and wee...let’s think about that for a minute. A school pet would poop and wee  everywhere, especially in the sand pit which looks like a massive litter box There is nothing worse than finding cat poo in your sand castle.

Dogs might poo on the grass, then a kid would stand in the poo and the bell would ring and the kid would walk through the classroom with a trail of poo. Have you ever smelt that before? DISGUSTING!!!!!  If we had a small pet it might just come in and poo right in the classroom!!!! GROSS

A school pet would be a big responsibility, and I don’t think we are ready for it. Pets take a lot of looking after, and not just from 9-3, or during the term. We would have to find a home for the pet outside of school house, we would have to constantly be watching out for poo and wee, and we would have to make sure it stayed in the school grounds. If we were busy doing these things all day we would be too distracted to get our work done. I don’t think Lawrence Area School should have a school pet.