Second Row To the Board

Second row to the board! These words could not just be ignored I’m thinking but a vintage few Would even start to have a clue Nostalgia begs those days at school With steely nuns whose stare would rule Blackboards and their squeaky clamor Chalked Arithmetic and grammar When called upon to diagram By row, we took final exam Our sentence structure, now to see Whose brain has not been absentee With prepositions, verbs and nouns We hit the boards, such eager sounds Arms held tight, just the right angle Participles must not dangle!