How Smart Are You?

Well, I’ve spoken with my guidance counselor and I taking everything I need to graduate. Plus I’ve decided to take Home Ec. It’s important to know how to run an efficient household.
I have all the regular classes plus drama and swing choir. I practically live in the arts department.
I have four AP classes and my extra curricular courses include Art Appreciation and Advance French.
Ummm, I don’t really remember. I think I have gym and shop on the list though.

Easy, I get out there and start talking to the people. You’re not going to know how to solve a problem until you talk to the people themselves and find out what their concerns are in the first place. I mean it’s they’re community we’re trying to rebuild here, isn’t it?
The first thing this group needs is funding. Obviously we can set up benefits to raise awareness for this problem as well as solicit contributors. A silent art auction that displays the work that’s come out of these neighborhood or perhaps a performance by some well known perform who came from this area will help.
Ummm, I’m not quite sure I would join a program like this. Am I doing it for extra credit in school? Well, if I’m there, I guess I’ll just do what they tell me.
Well, I read everything I can on low income housing initiatives in this area. I study strategies that worked and those that did not work. Then I develop an intricate proposal that I can begin approaching business with, modifying aspects to suit the general needs of each corporation I approach.

The best way to do something like this is just to do it. You can’t really think about getting an A or not, you just got to dive and work. Only way to get things done, really.
Well, I research the subject and then determine a thesis that is both edifying, but also in accordance with my teacher’s perspective on the issue at hand. You will never get an A if you chose to counter your instructor’s position on a subject (even if you know it’s incorrect).
I think I’ll make up a song and present the paper in a sort of extended poem format. That way even if all of the facts aren’t correct, I can still make up some bonus points with creativity.
Ugh, I hate school. I’ll probably procrastinate until the last minute and then slop something together like I usually do. I never get As anyway.

Lets put on a show! Kids always like making up plays and performing and there are so many different ways to engage them when trying to put an entire production together. They can write, sing, act and even create the scenery. Nothing is more stimulating than putting a production together.
I’m going to set up age appropriate activities for each one. They should be stimulating, but fun as well. The littlest can watch Baby Einstein, while the two older ones can play Memory. Maybe, if they’re really good, I’ll teach them the basic rules of Chess.
Oh, my mother would never leave me alone with the kids. There was that time she left me with the little one, but after she cut off her baby toe with a meat cleaver, I’ve pretty much been relieved of all baby sitting duties, thank goodness.
Their kids, not animals. They know what they like to do. Some I’m just going to follow their lead and do what they want. As long as they’re not burning the house down, I don’t see a problem with letting them just chill and be themselves.

They’d probably say I’m a dreamer.
Well, they sometimes call me the human calculator.
Why do you ask such stupid questions?
I don’t know what they’d say, but hopefully they’d say it to my face.