Wednesday, January 9, 2013

The 51st State?

Read this story about Puerto Rico on page 6 of your Scholastic Newspaper. What do you think?  Should Puerto Rico become the 51st state in the United States?  Why or why not?

~ Scholastic News 01.07.13 edition

19 comments:

Channy said...

Puerto Rico should because they are protected by the U.S military and they are in U.S territory. Puerto Rico might as well be a State.

Liam Wilcox said...

I think it should be a state because Hawaii is a state and most other islands are too.

jonah said...

they should beacuse there will be more businesses and more businesses mean more money!

Theresa said...

I don't think that Puerto Rico should become a state because 40% of the people left that place blank and that is a lot of the US to leave out about this change. I also don't want Puerto Rico to become a state because then we would have to worry about paying income taxes to the US government. Also, it seems like not much people are on board with the idea because then we would have to change the flag.

ana said...

It think that they should make Puerto Rico should become a state because they already have a Governer like all of the other 50 states in the U.S. And if they already do that, shouldn't they be able to vote for president too? But they can't because they aren't a official state. I think that they really shoould be the 51st State.

Jason Bui said...

i think puerto rico should be a state because hawaii is and island and so is puerto rico and it is not fair that hawaii is a state and puerto rico is not

Maysen Baker. said...

I think it shouln't because we would have to fit ANOTHER state in the United States map. And make all different maps now.

harmeet singh said...

I think Puerto Rico should be the 51th state because we can have more places to go to in the USA.

Winni said...

i dont think Puerto Rico should be a state because then they have to make a new flag and it would just be weird.

jericho said...

Puerto Rico shouldnt be the 51st state because it is to much to remember when we take our map quiz on the 51 states.

Janna said...

Yes, because Puerto Rico wants to become a state so they should be able to become a state.(but i don't wanna remember where another state is for the map quiz)

Philicyanna said...

I think that Puerto Rico should not become a state because like a state Puerto Rico has a government so that must mean their treating Puerto Rico like a state. Also, Puerto Rico doesn't need to pay income taxes to the federal government, but if you become a state you will probably will.

amandeep said...

I don't think that it should be a state because then there would be this other state on the map that we are not going to be famillar with and it is going to be hard to remeber that it was seprate from spain

Megann W. said...

I don't think the Puerto Ricos should have their island be a state because they don't vote or pay income taxes

Bryan said...

I don't really know if puerto rico should becaome a state in the u.s. sure they can vote but i don't really know.

Angelina said...

No I don't think Puerto Rico should become a state because then EVERYONE will have to get used to saying, " So the 51 States are" it JUst makes it harder and to have to remake the U.S. flag JUST to add another star on it?

Hunter B. Smith said...

I think puerto rico should becuase they are already protected by the u.s. and are u.s. citizens so they should be able to join the u.s.

Saif said...

yes i think Puerto Rico should be our new state. Because we have won so many fights and there's no point of fighting again.

kevonnie said...

No I dont think puerto rico should become the 51st state because its gonna have to go on the map quiz.