I’ve been a teacher for over a decade now. Things have always been frustrating, but things are down right crazy these days. Here’s a little poem I wrote about my Frustrations with education right now.
Push and Pull
by J. S. Smith
Once they cried out
“We can’t do this without you”
“We didn’t know how hard this was”,
“You should be Essential too”
But then the magnet flipped
and they forced us back.
Think of the children! They cried
It is on you to guide them, to feed, to cloth, to save
They are better off with you and the chance
Than at home with abuse. Or no water or power
Or someone that pushes too hard.
But who cares about me now?
I know! We’ll give you a video to watch about relaxation.
It will be live during your busy moments.
Take a moment for yourself
But make sure that they don’t fall behind
Before the great contagion
We risked our lives every day
Guns went off and children scattered or fell
They said to ban the guns
Or they aren’t taking my guns
As if that was the cause of the issue.
No one opens fire because my rights
They open fire because of a burning desire
To end someone’s misery
Or be the next one on tv
For the large murder in history.
The heroes have turned to villains
All in a game of votes and defamation.
While I toil away under the guise of empathy
“Do what we say or find something else”
So you think I’m indoctrinating your child
With thoughts and desires, not taught in your home
But all I want them to do is think
To be a human
If I could change your child as much as you think,
They wouldn’t have a zero in place.
They would be able to use paragraphs
And find a theme, or meaning behind the dream
Let the light shine bright
On those heroes of yesterday
The one you put a pedestal once
That found ways to do things
They used to do every day
But through the screen and not in real life
To push or pull kids to get the learning done
But are now, from the public, on the run
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