"Goal Setting"

Okay, so this is not a poem it's kind of a rant or maybe a thought, anyway it's my blog and my thoughts so I'll write whatever I want. So who remembers the first day of school in elementary, and even sometimes in high school. Your teacher would hand you some sort of paper and give you a half an hour and tell you to write down your goals for the year. I HATED this. I always have, and when for some reason I'm forced to do it again, I still hate doing this. First off, in grade school was there really that much going on in my life that I could set goals for myself? I think I wrote the same thing like every time "I want to do my homework earlier and work harder" total lie. Sure maybe the first week I would but after that I didn't care anymore, in fact as time went on I think I probably left things to the last minute even more than I did before I was forced to goal set every year. and I mean really? Teachers probably got like the same answers from every kid in their classes. Does this exercise even help later in life? I can't even think of a time when it's helpful. Apparently google thinks it is because when I tried to find links about it being stupid it only gave me links about how important goal setting is... but for what?
Suppose your goal is to get a better job. You research ways to buff up your resume; you bribe people to be better references for you; you search the classifieds and online for job listings... then you apply and hand out your resumes. A big part of this goal you can't really attain on your own because you don't actually decide if you get hired, so goal setting didn't really help you there.
Um... suppose your goal is to spend less money so you make it your goal to go shopping less. and then you "achieve" it by shopping less.
So what's my point? Is goal setting really that helpful, I mean most of these "goals" people set seem to just be putting common sense into practice. So if you're a teacher and you're reading this, unless you can give me 5 good reasons for goal setting, please stop torturing your kids on the first day of school.
This post was not really meant to be that persuasive but was meant more for me to publicly express my distaste towards "goal setting".