(Bill Stamps/KUHF Houston Public Radio)
Elementary school students in southeast Houston signed a contract that said they would all receive new bicycles if they reached certain goals. Yesterday the school and its sponsors kept their end of the bargain.
Christmas is still a week away, but for the majority of students at J.R Harris Elementary, Christmas came a little earlier this year. Thanks to Valero and the nonprofit group Elves & More, every student who reached a goal set at the beginning of the school year, got a brand new bicycle. Principal Steven Harding explains how it worked.
“The kids had to meet a certain goal on their accelerated reader progress. And that’s a program where they go to the library and check out books and read books, and then they take a comprehension test on that book and then based on how well they do they get points. And so the teachers set goal for them and based on whether or not they met that goal they got a bike.” In all, 679 boys and girls are taking home a bicycle.
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