Ilene Bauer Poet Rhyme

If It Isn'T Broken

New administrators,
Often shooting in the dark,
Think (quite falsely) they must shake things up
So they can make their mark.

Thus they challenge well-run programs,
Up the ante, change the rules
And when bedlam follows, sure enough,
They look, to us, like fools.

In the meantime, though, we suffer,
For their efforts make things worse;
As they strut and flaunt their power,
We can only grouse or curse.

Sometimes justice will prevail
And their ideas will all be nixed,
Proving if it isn’t broken,
There’s no need to get it fixed.

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Robert Johnson May 5, 2014 at 9:11 AM Change is good, change is bad. Sometimes your happy, sometimes your sad. We have to live with other people. That's why our churches have a steeple. That we may find the way to go. Each Sunday morning for the glow.

Andrea Dietrich May 2, 2014 at 12:53 AM yeah, this happens in the teaching world too. I can't stand theory. I just want to TEACH. and do it the way I've always done it. I sure like this.

Faye Gibson May 1, 2014 at 6:50 PM Oh, yes . . . I recognize this scenario. Very well expressed.