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My school rewards kids that read 20 minutes per night for a month with an assembly. It's your average chaotic school event: Ice cream, raffles, cheap useless prizes, etc.A student returned from his first reading reward party last Thursday, beaming. His eyes were just about popping out of his sockets and the creases in his forehead were cavernous. He cornered me and rambled for some time about what he was going to read next, and how there's no way he'll miss the next party, and other such "And then...and then...and then..." fourth grader speak.On the way out the door, shortly after, he said to me, "You know, I'm not in it for the prizes." I smiled, thinking what was coming would be a brownie-point winning, "I'm in it for the enjoyment of reading," or "I just like to read."Instead, he finished, "I'm in it for the ice cream."Sigh. Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss.