Living A Lie

Today I discovered that for the last 16 years of my life I have been living a lie. I have always thought that my first name is Coy. Most people find this to be a very odd name. People like to try and make fun of my name and how weird my parents must be to name me that. I’ve lived through 16 years of fish jokes. Many people have asked why I have such an odd name; I think my parents told me that they saw some guy at a rodeo named Coy. They thought, “Hey! We should name our kid that!” So I was the next one they popped out and got stuck with the name.

 Recently I was playing Xbox with Caleb Hoskins and NicK (spelt with a k and not an h) Lindsay; Caleb made the discovery that “Christopher” seems to sound more natural. I agreed with him that Christopher sounded better, so I went and asked my parents if Coy was just a nickname or something. Mrs. Kelly said, “Oh coy boy, I always knew you would find out someday.” Now Mr. Kelly came in and said, “We thought it would be funny to give you a stupid name and see how weird you turned out.”

I was in disbelief that my parents would do such a thing to their favorite child, so I went and searched for my birth certificate. Once I found it I realized that the horrible story they were telling me is true. The birth certificate read “Christopher Coy Kelly” I was always told my middle name was Steven but apparently that was a lie too.

This is a true story and I ask that everyone start addressing me by my real name instead of this atrocity my parents gave me. I am done living this lie and its time I start my new life as Christopher.

Class Sizes

I read an article on the Time website about how bigger class sizes would be better financially. They say that if classes were bigger it wouldn’t have an impact on the kids, as long as there are good teachers. I think this is kind of dumb because I really hate big classes. Smaller classes are great because there are less kids to act stupid. With less stupid kids the teacher can better control the class and everyone has a better time in that class. I’m sure teachers enjoy having smaller classes too. Its easier to learn when there are fewer kids. Even if there aren’t any obnoxious people in a class it would still take longer for everyone to understand what’s going on, so the class would still struggle.

In large classes there are so many people that it is difficult to get individual help so you can understand what’s going on. In small classes there is more time for everyone to get individual help if they need it and the teacher can get around to helping everyone individually. This would boost grades because everyone would do better with more one on one help. The solution to money problems isn’t to have bigger classes and cut down on teachers. They should have smaller classes which would help kids get better grades, and then they will get more money because of all the good grades.

The article was from some big city and the school they were talking about had lots of kids. For a bigger school it might not work to have small classes because there are so many kids. Mason City High School should have smaller classes and I’m sure peoples grades would improve. We need smaller classes with more individual help from teachers so we can better grasp what they are trying to teach us.