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If you get a certain number of Hero Points, you can turn them in for prizes like extra recess time. And the homeroom that gets the MOST Hero Points gets a day off from school in June. I actually thought it was a pretty decent idea, but of course people always have to go and mess things up. Right away kids realized they didn't actually have to do good deeds to get Hero Points. They just started

如果你获得了一定数量的英雄点数，你就可以用它们换取额外的休息时间等奖励。 获得最多英雄分的班主任在6月可以放假一天。 实际上我认为这是个不错的主意，但是当然人们总是会把事情搞砸。 孩子们很快意识到，他们并不需要通过做好事来获得英雄点数。 他们才刚刚开始

FAKING good deeds whenever the teachers were around. LET ME HELP YOU WITH THOSE BOOKS, ANTHONY! WHY, THANK YOU, PETER! Hero Pints are printed on sheets of ten, and teachers tear one off when they want to reward a kid. Eric Glick got his hands on one of the sheets and photocopied it, so after that there were all these counterfeit Hero Points going around school. Eric started selling them for twenty-five cents a point, but then other kids realized THEY could make copies, too, and after that there were so many hero points going around that you could buy a HUNDRED for a QUARTER.

每当老师在的时候就假装做好事。 让我来帮你拿那些书吧，安东尼！啊，谢谢你，彼得！“英雄品脱”一式十张，老师想要奖励孩子时，会撕下一张。 埃里克·格利克拿到了其中一张纸并复印了出来，所以在那之后学校里到处都是伪造的英雄点数。 埃里克开始以25美分一分的价格出售，但后来其他孩子意识到他们也可以复制，从那以后，市面上到处都是英雄点数，你花25美分就可以买到100个。

The teachers got suspicious when the worst kids in our class started turning in tons of Hero Points for extra recess. So the school invalidated all the Hero Points printed on white paper and created a whole new batch on GREEN paper. But it didn't take long for people to start making copies on green paper, and the whole thing started all over again.

当我们班最差的孩子为了额外的课间休息而上交大量的英雄分时，老师们开始怀疑了。 所以学校取消了所有印在白纸上的英雄积分，用绿纸重新制作了一批。 但没过多久，人们就开始在绿纸上复印了，整个事情又重新开始了。

Every time the school changed the color of the paper, there would be fakes made within twenty-four hours. Finally, the school started punishing kids who turned in more than five Hero Points at a time, because the teachers saw that as proof they were counterfeit. But THAT wasn't fair, either. Marcel Templeton, one of the nicest kids in our class, got put in detention for the rest of the month even though he earned his thirty-five hero appoints legitimately.

每次学校改变纸张的颜色，在24小时内就会有赝品。 最后，学校开始惩罚一次交5个以上英雄分的孩子，因为老师们认为这是伪造的证据。 但这也不公平。 马塞尔·坦普尔顿是我们班最优秀的孩子之一，尽管他合法地获得了35个英雄称号，但当月剩下的时间他还是被关禁闭了。

Eventually, the janitor busted one of the main counterfeit operations when he walked into an empty Science room that kids were using as their base. The school cancelled the whole Hero Points program after that, which stinks because now that extra recess is off the table, nobody's willing to do anything nice.

最终，当看门人走进一间孩子们用作基地的空科学教室时，他破获了一个主要的伪造活动。 学校在那之后取消了整个英雄积分计划，这太糟糕了，因为现在额外的课间休息不在考虑范围内，没人愿意做点好事。

Sunday I think Mom took that stuff I said about popularity with kids my age to heart, because today she took me out clothes shopping. Ordinarily I can't STAND going clothes shopping, because the only time we do it is at the beginning of the school year. And once a year is enough for ME.

星期天，我想妈妈把我说的受同龄孩子欢迎的话当真了，因为今天她带我去买衣服。 通常我不能忍受去买衣服，因为我们只有在开学的时候才去买衣服。 一年一次对我来说就足够了。