standardized testing
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Help me jump through the hoops
that are presented to me around every corner
by the people who promise to help me,
who promise that
they will provide me with the tools to succeed.
But guess what:
Hey, Mr. Senator,
Can you not see
This isn't how learning is supposed to be
Just take it from me,
Under each eye, there's a lavender-shaded valley
It’s crushing.
The bile builds and rises.
The tears burn. The cheeks flush.
The frustration. The disappointment. The failure.
It’s the numbers’ game.
This class is really dumb.
Time doesn’t seem to ever pass.
But I’m starting to feel numb,
to the idiocy of our class.
Our teacher’s lessons seem muddled,
Testing, testing, A,B,C,and DFill out the blanks completely.I've taken everything from STAR to CSTmakes no sense to categorize me.
I am unstable. I am fine. The dark eyed boy in Physics says I'm a dime. He is audacious to call a quarter a dime.
Tick, Tick, Tick, Tok
The heartbeat of the clock thrums through skull,
Down through my bloodstream,
Tangles with the vesciles and vehicles of the machinery of life,
Slides through my fingers,
Tick, Tick, Tick, Tok
The heartbeat of the clock thrums through skull,
Down through my bloodstream,
Tangles with the vesciles and vehicles of the machinery of life,
Slides through my fingers,
I'm a freshman in high school I know how to find 'x'I know that oxygen is a gasand that the Declaration of Independencewas signed on July 4th, 1776My education is going to change the world
(Written in regret of standardized tests, and dedicated to the dying art of classroom creativity.)
paper money
kept inside
cement walls
burning her mind
with books of gold
Each lesson puts a dense weight on my chest,
And all of the information blurs together in a fuzzy heap.
My brain cannot filter what I do not fully understand.
Each subject is taught back to back,
How dare you confine me.
Put me in a box with nothing,
And give me four crude blocks labled A, B, C, and D,
To fashion my future.
I am a dilettante,
An artist, a creator, the next Michaelangelo,
