I have to set a SMART goal? Okay
I have to set a SMART goal? Okay
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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/yolkofficial on 2023-06-21 18:48:52+00:00.
I've been reading through this sub and I think I've got something close enough to the point, but I understand if it's not exactly what this sub is about.
So I've always hated SMART goal setting, the most influential/traumatizing years of this being middle school, but I recall the first run in I had with them was elementary school, fifth grade to be exact.
You know Read About? It was this computer program with some adapted paper lessons to go along with it, I believe this was about 2015(?). I hated Read About. Let me say that again, I HATED Read About. That damn condescending Nick always correcting me and just existing. Do I have good writing/reading comprehension now? Yes. Was it because of that program? I don't know, I clicked through a lot of it because I just had a strong irrational hatred for it(maybe it messed with my ADHD, maybe I just hate learning information by being told I'm wrong instead of just telling me what I'm supposed to get out of it).
What's all that for? To explain my first frustration that caused my supposed MC. The second is the teacher herself. She was prim and proper without balancing books on your head and with my troubled attitude at the time, we didn't see eye to eye all the time(one time she had us do a creative writing assignment acting like we were pilgrims to the new world and I went in depth about life on the boat and when I got the assignment back she had crossed out a lot of it), but we still got along.
So, she tells us we have an assignment about setting goals. I can tell from the formatting of the paper it's a Read About assignment. And here's the thing about the assignment and any goddamn time after I've been forced to be around a SMART goal worksheet, the expectation that isn't written is this is supposed to be a goal about being successful or doing good specifically in school. Now I am a suck up at times, but I'm not going to lie about "yes I'm gonna do my best in school and get A's and go to college" because no. That's how I feel now and that's how I felt then. They don't tell you this, but they will hand you back your goal and tell you it isn't good enough if you aren't being an academic suck up. I had a superstitious force about this even at 11, and so when I'm given the paper, I give her a damn goal: not die. To the best of my ability (I'm 18 now), I believe this is what I wrote:
S, specific: my goal is not to die.
M, measurable: yes.
A, achievable: I can achieve this by being careful and not dying.
R, relevant: dying is bad.
T, time bound: it is forever.
Along with that, there was a section for what do you do when you reach your goal, and I remember this very well, I wrote: each time I almost die I will throw a party to celebrate my life.
I handed it in and some days later I got pulled out of class by the counselor whom was very concerned that a fifth grader would write this(back in 2015 this would be out of the norm) and I cried and just said I thought the assignment was stupid. I wasn't in trouble, howmever I wasn't made to do the assignment again. Sigh, if only middle school me could've figure out a way around it like I did in elementary school.