Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Gettin' Paid

It's that time of year again, and I'm grading standardized test essays in order to eke out a living. Some brilliant insights from Georgia youth:

A rather infamous leader is Hitler.

Doing personal research I have found out that alcohol is not good for the brain or the body.

Turning sixteen means only one thing: it’s time to get the famous drivers lissense.

Most rap videos are filmed in jail, so they send the signal that it’s okay to go to jail.

Schools today are putting more emphasis on education more than ever.

The candidate was mere votes away from the presidency.

Women are monarchs in the great thing we call society.

From an essay on children's beauty pageants: In their youth they had vain dreams of becoming sophisticated clowns.

Lung cancer is the most popular with people who smoke.

As an American I never have time to sit down and eat.

I love spelling errors, particularly involving homonyms:

In a world full of genocide and gorilla warfare many horrible casualties occur regularly.

When starting to date someone new, it would be smart to make mental notes of the habitats that person has that could bother you in the future.

People having fun at the weeding ceremony did not limit their alcohol conception.

3 comments:

BW said...

Kids say the darndest things. It's a tragicomedy.

Evelyn said...

They are as articulate as George Bush, the younger.

Anonymous said...

I am glad my students aren't the only ones.