Changing Behavior

In a different class, in a school district that will remain nameless, one student on the topic of "setting a goal to change an aspect of your behavior" wrote the following on his essay:


word for word, misspelling and all...


My goal for my behavior is to stop being a drug attic (yes he wrote attic) stop poppin bars and smokin this legal weed crap just so it wont come out on my drug test. I want to be sobar (we all like being sobar) and live in reality but I can't, (nice use of comma)I can't stop. Maybe one day my body won't want it anymore and I'll live it up to the real world thats my goal.

I appreciated that he at least took the time to write his essay before he asked to go to the bathroom and didn't come back.

A Literary Example of Irony

Today we had a 250 word in class essay on a time in which you set a goal to change an aspect of your behavior. One girl was unsure of what to write about, so I asked some of the other students for examples, and I basically told her she could write about anything. I was walking around to monitor the students' progress and noticed she still hadn't written anything. After most of the class had finished, I noticed she hadn't written much. When the bell rang she turned in her essay. It simply read:
"A goal to change an aspect of my behavior is not to procrastinate. When I was in the junior school I procrastinated a lot by playing games and drawing. But now that I am in high school I can't be doing that."