We all got the same mentality
Quit school, do your thing, be what you want to be
But no one wants to put the work in
No one has the courage to go against the government
Now i'm not saying they brainwashed us
I don't know anything about the federals
But they just throw things down our throats
With no explanation, just credentials
To get a good career and succeed in life?
Why don't you teach us
Instead of teaching us trigonometry
And other math crap like geometry
Expecting us to be intelligent
When all we know is probability
And for what?
To count how many red marbles Joe grabbed out from the bag
And Anne's ability to put three back?
I am sick and tired of all these lies we've been told
Regarding our future and what we need to know
What we need is knowledge
And sense that is common
But in this world we live in today
Common sense ain't so common
I bet you're wondering why
And the reason for that being
Is because of our major needing
To know how to think critically
But up until the 10th grade
Was when I started realizing how useless english class was
Initially being the most important class
To society and I
But backfiring right around
When we were finally conscious of the one hour that passed us by
Every single day
Those daily one hours were spent
Doing character charts
Supposedly defining our rank of "smarts"
The point being that there was none
Except to pass that grade and one up one
No personal encouragement to show that teachers care
Knowledge and intelligence is rarely even there
Ignorance and stupidity has dominated most minds
Pea brain laughs at the ambitious one caught in a book
Shouting "what a nerd guys, look!"
But don't look at the bookworm, look at your friends
The ones who use slang and no grammar to no end
Speaking like never educated fools
But they attended every roster, every school
Come SATs and he sits there dazed
If this is the apparent curriculum expected
To win us a ticket to college
How do they expect us to win it if they didn't
Once mention this knowledge?
So grammar, most important subject of all
Gets thrown out the window by the system
And the teachers who say that it's useless and common sense
Expect us to know it and get upset if we don't
I'm still wondering what even is a "past future perfect tense?"
Speaking of the elapsed time we spend
In the present, we're still learning,
are we learning enough?
In the past, we've learnt,
Will it all pay off?
The idiocy still stays
With little to no attention
Let me guarantee you that most don't even know
The Iraq war is still in action
The only awareness we're aware of
Would only be made possible when everyone
Jumps the bandwagon by posting statuses about disasters
Other than that, no awareness is said
No awareness is spread
A wacky celebrity mishap would get
More viewers and critics than anything yet
America's involvement with Syria and a chance at a World War Three
Isn't even a part of the "net"
But first let's mention the fact that
No one knows where Syria is
And Asia is not a country
California is not the only West Coast state
And Los Angeles is in its boundary
Geography is never taught
Unknown to its importance
With so many different lifestyles and cultures
It's a shame to not know the difference
Why the things we'll never need is what is focused on
But daily factual understandings
Are barely brushed upon?
College sits at the start of our lifeline
And we only know so much
Finding a triangle's missing sine
Instead of paying my bills and such
Now let me ask you a quick and final question,
Is the education system rigged
Or am i just simply stupid?
