Best Too Cool For School Poems

Remember how it was in school
    Diverse and sundry subjects -- Cool!
  History, Math, Chemistry; Art and Music too
    A Foreign Language, Swimming in a pool

  Our minds were open, we took it in
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"I love my teacher."
"I have a great teacher." 
"My teacher is super."
"My teacher's so cool."

These words are music to a teacher's ears,
Exactly what parents and administrators want to hear.
Yet what do they mean?  How are they earned?
Are they related to learning? Or are we...

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Leong's watching TikTok on her laptop (as always) and she asks Lisa (an NYC girl) “Are you familiar with the the “downtown girl” aesthetic?”
Lisa’s dismissive, “Yeah, it just looks like Urban Outfitters grunge to me.”
Leong explains, “It includes headphones and it’s supposed to be a...

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A packed lunch of sandwiches 
meant to take away the weariness 
that comes with going back to a set prison 
meant to change our lives. 
Friends are scarce. 
A definition lost to those I found hardest to trust, 
whilst burying myself in books, 
for diaries...

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