Is 'sin' an acceptable HS assignment subject? Opinions requested.

[Angrboda]

It's fun to exploit loopholes in teacher assignments, and they tend to appreciate out-of-the-box thinking.

Few of my teachers appreciated my "thinking outside the box." Granted, my thinking tended to be not only "outside the box," but also, "out of this world," "outside this solar system," and even "out of this universe," but still.

I remember in the fifth grade, we were given one of those 'feel-good' assignments to write a brief sentence or two on what we wanted as goals for our life or some such. It was one of those questions that they don't actually grade, the student writes, "firefighter," "policeman," or "mommy," and everybody gets an easy 'A'. Well, I had been reading up on the science of gerontology and the study of aging, and much of the popular accounts were riddled with hopeful ideas such as doubling or tripling the human lifespan within our lifetime, so I figured that if it was possible that I lived to be 300, by the time I hit my third century, they'd have extended it to a thousand, and by the time I reached a thousand years, to ten thousand, and so on, and by extension I might never face death. So I wrote that my goal was to live forever. The teacher gave me a 'D'.