High School Student teaching High School Students

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You tell us you're a teacher.                                                                                                                          

You say you have a degree.                                                                                                                            

For all I know, you're someone with no individuality.                                                                                

You try so hard to fit in.                                                                                                                                    

But you're so out of place                                                                                                                      

Because normal teachers don't speak profanely to your face.                                                                

To hear you say the "F word" is really quite amusing                                                                      

Because the government pays you for it..isn't that confusing?                                                            

So many things I want to say yet so many words unspoken                                                                  

I guess our school boards common sense is really kind of broken                                                      

I know you hate kids with a passion so why are you working here?                                                  

No one really likes you because you fill us up with fear.                                                                          

I thought teachers were supposed to be full of inspiration                                                        

Instead our school will hire cheap because of cost inflation.                                                                

I dont care if you like me, that's not my priority.                                                                            

There's so much more I strive to be, I'm smarter can't you see?                                                  

 I wish I could tell people that my english teacher is really cool                                                

Instead I have to tell them how she's still stuck in high school.

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Grant-Grey Porter Hawk Guda

Powerful expression! 

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