american education system
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the children are sleeping.
society decides,
“It is convenient for us to
destroy dreams.
Spotlight.
Center stage.
Spotlight turns to headlights
Caught in the headlights
A student is a deer frozen
In front of a question in the form of a car
Coming towards them like a bullet
I hate the way some like to say,
"Man high school was some bullshit!"
Like, "I never learned anything useful!"
Teach kids!
They tend to learn.
Why make school a prison?
Teachers should only get to teach.
Teach kids!
There was a field-specific teacher.Whose awareness was a misfeature.She taught her students one day,In a very narrow way,And spouted hot air as a preacher.
I love the English language
I love learning new words
Uping my vocabulary
With words like licentious
Or efficacy
I love taking those words
And creating new worlds
With lines of prose and poetry
Reinforcement of false “fairness,” has rose a reputation of a world-renowned expectation of mocking American education.
I remember hearing stories of a
Country wherein the citizens were free
To love and believe in whoever they
So desired, but that was in the past.
I am four wallsI am brickI am stoneI am brokeI make brokenI am the "un fun" in unfunded
Please don’t refer to us as “batches”
y’know, like prototype after prototype after prototype
we didn’t ask to be struck and burned out like matches
and while you wait for the time we’re ripe,
Ida B. Wells...
Nothing but truth between her margins.
Threatened to never return to Memphis because to save her life, that was a bargain.
And Martin Luther King?
Oh how he had my people marching!
I bought my first puppy a couple of weeks ago
He's a baby pug with the flattest face
And a body that kind of resembles a potato
So that's what I named him
Potato
SAT, GPA, ACT,
Make that school notice me.
Applications and deadlines left and right,
The kind of oppression we're taught not to fight.
There isn't anything fair in this game we're forced to play
We say that education is a right...
Yet there remains an inequality
If parents can afford to send their child to private school..
They are already at a higher level
When I was a child
my mother
and all my teachers
told me that I was "gifted".
They said that I was brilliant,
had such potential,
smarter than all the rest,
and that because of this,
Potassium Hydroxideteaches Chemistry.Hey, Potassium Hydroxide:You are known to every studentfor being less than prudentwhen it comes to the fire alarm.On the lab tables you light
Let me free and let me be
The man in the river and the man in the tree
They don't do much for me.
They yell and holler and chant
At the smallest village ant
To stop the apathy and being nonchalant.
I will not learn in a cube.
Put me in a box, tell me I must do this, force me into a crowd, a schedule.
Try. I will not learn.
I will fly free in nature, away from straight lines and hard rules.
