An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at least incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious...or just dead wrong."
Russell Baker
Failing Our Future
Mundane lessons from the uninspired
Educators marking each minute under-fired
Outdated books, or progressive lies
Determining paths in our children's lives
Underfunded schools with children begging to learn
For qualified teachers, new books, they yearn
Listless thugs take up desks and chairs
Dealing their illicit mind bending wares
Harvard graduates tout their degree
For each and everyone to see
How many were paid for by rich parents and such
When idealistic poor students weren't offered as much?
Parents who choose to remain detached
A key around the neck, a locked door latch
Empty houses and video games for hours
No one to tend to these poor lost flowers
Biased information is passed along
No one cares if it's right or wrong
Teachers, parents, administrators
No one questions these imitators
Students passing on failing grades
There are too many teams that must be made
How many can read on graduation day?
How did our system ever get this way?
Lives go on, many children are lost
Society has borne the cost
The most important assets to nurture
Are being forgotten, a scarified future
Marian
April 26, 2011
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