"People should have goals so they know what to do for the future. My goals are to go to high school and college. To do that i have to read more, pay more attention to the teacher when he or she is talking, and dont watch that much T.V. In order for people to do that, they have to keep trying and dont ever give up.

To reach my goals i need to pay attention when teacher is talking instead of fooling around with other students I need to read more and not watch TV that much.

To watch TV less and read more i have to go to the library and read more book not turn on the TV or the computer when i go to the library i should read all the time. I need to have good grade so i can go to high school.

To getting a better grade i need to read more book at the library and not look around to see what movie they have and i should borrow a book not a movie."

 

7 years of age

 

god that grammar and syntax sucks ass.








I'm guessing probably 10-12ish. Still seems pretty cool that a kid has dreams like that though. very respectable.

 

i agree that "essay" needs A LOT of work. i dont even know where to start in correcting it...that part is giving me trouble. i think i have to start with square one and teach the kid the structure of a good essay / paragraph. :happysad: the kid is a 8th grader, 13 years old.

 

Definitely hit the run-on sentances, making words plural, and some basic sentance structure. But the ambition is awesome...more kids need that

 

17

 

That's all fine and dandy, but I think he's brainwashed more than smart.

Sounds like he has a case of super-strict parents.

In other words, he's going to end up a fvck up, when he rebells.

Just my 0.02.

 

but i know some 17 year olds that write like that. :happysad: talk about slipping through the hole, eh.

 

I know some like that, too. They're the ones who speak almost no english, but somehow managed to graduate high school. hispanic, viet, etc.

The kid who used to live next door to me had a graduation party... Tried to talk to him and he didn't speak a word of english.

 

That's actually because (this is from my experiences in high school, not bs), in California you have to pass a foriegn language to "graduate". However, if your native language is say Spanish (this is the situation I ran into with another student), and you don't speak English, you can STILL take Spanish as your "foriegn" language. They have to take English class, sure, but English class doesn't teach ENGLISH, it teaches how to write and read; but not specifically ENGLISH. In fact, at my school - they had teachers specifically for the Spanish kids in English class, to translate for them so they could pass.

So to clarify this, Spanish kids who speak only Spanish can take Spanish as their foriegn language. American kids who speak only English have to take Spanish (or some other language) as their foriegn language.

I actually fought this with my school board, using the argument that there is no legal definition of "our" language (that's how the Spanish kids are able to take Spanish as their "foriegn" language) therefor English could be my foriegn language. I also used the argument stated above about the Spanish kid, and that if they wanted me to admit that English is our national language and therefor not foriegn (so I would then have to take another language), then the Spanish speaking kids would have to do the same, and quit taking Spanish classes as their foriegn language.

They let me graduate anyway and that was that, but I kind of wish I had persued it more and changed it.

Anyhow, that's probably why you ran into that....