Schools are Changing
Gates once locked with poverty's rust
now swing on golden hinges
Every child a key-holder:
the girl whose fingers paint light from darkness,
the boy who dreams in mother tongues and thinks in mathematics,
wheels spinning stories across threshold stones.
Breakfast arrives with sunrise and hope,
satellites whisper knowledge to mountaintops,
libraries gallop on horseback to forgotten villages.
Schools are changing.
Democracy breathes in corridors
where
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Categories:
schools, appreciation, books, care, change,
Form: Free verse
Democracy in Schools
We think too much
of the silence of things,
Indian classrooms
where my student's
voice breaks free.
Bright minds cascade
up like golden ink
lifting our nation's hope,
lotus blooms
on learning shores.
Beautiful voices
float along,
empowering folks
in crowded hallways.
They invite people
to the center where
wise policies make
an amazing symphony
of collaborative dreams.
"They've earned their voices,"
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Categories:
schools, children, devotion, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
The Fish from Differing Schools of Thought
In one big ocean were many schools of fish. Most of them were nice in their own ways, but this is the story of two types of schools of fish very different in their ways of thinking. One school of fish was fond of mesmerizing things such as the colorful lures the fishermen sometimes
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Categories:
schools, allegory,
Form: Narrative
run to fun
My daddy—he once told me
don’t ever play with nuns
they’ll hit you with their rulers
it won’t be any fun
I snuck out of that prison
and now I’m on the run
Once freed from that schoolhouse
I sunbathed in the sun
I stayed out late, I went on dates
looking out for number-one
When I think of what I went through
of all the
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Categories:
schools, freedom, fun, humor, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
US SCHOOLS, US RULES
US SCHOOLS, US RULES
Yes, in the USA and probably some other places too
Distances are such that they still do bus kids to school
A good local service, as many would agree that’s true
But car drivers in a hurry should never act like a fool
If held up whenever a yellow school bus might stop
The law enforceable rear
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Categories:
schools, care, child,
Form: Terza Rima
nooks and crannies in Elementary Schools
There are now nooks and crannies in elementary school classrooms.
Places for children to slither and slide into
When they need a break
When they despise multiplication facts
When they are tired of reading
When I was a child I would have spent all day in one of these crannies
Ignoring the teacher as hard as I could
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Categories:
schools, school, teacher,
Form: Light Verse
Roots of Resilience
In the realm of educational activism, a tale unfolds,
Where a hero, young and bold, his destiny beholds.
Nurtured by government schools, his mother's embrace,
A journey begins, a pledge to defend, in this boundless space.
Amidst the classroom echoes, where knowledge finds its birth,
A hero blossoms, shaped by education's girth.
His mother, the school, in symbiotic grace,
A nurturing haven,
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Categories:
schools, devotion, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Don't let the Satanists stop you from having after school's Bible study for elementary schools
**No matter what state that born again Christians establish after school
Bible study for elementary school students, the Satanists want to establish
after school groups worshiping Satan. Even though they may or may not
personally worship him--they seek to present him as the real hero--and
Jesus Christ as the real villain!
Even though the public schools maybe rendered
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Categories:
schools, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Home Schools are next on their Progressive agenda Q and A
Several European countries have already previously banned home schooling in
their own countries by punishing home schooling parents and taking their children
away from them. Those parents know they can't find sanctuary in the USA under
our present Biden/Harris administration cause they would face deportation back
to their own countries.
Q: Why are
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Categories:
schools, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Song of Schools
In the land of opportunity, we stand with hope so bold,
But low salary earners face a tale that's left untold,
In the UK's schools, they teach with hearts so pure,
Yet their efforts go unnoticed, like a dream obscure.
We're the ones who shape the minds,
Guiding children to thrive and shine,
But the system treats us like we're blind,
It's
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Categories:
schools, beautiful, conflict, education, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Golden Rules At the Finest Schools
I sent my daughter to the finest schools
where she learned all the golden rules
Race-baiting pays, one's pronouns are weighed
with marijuana fill up the ashtrays
'B-' student in high school, all 'A's' in college
'Hmmm,' I
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Categories:
schools, business, daughter, drug, education,
Form: Couplet
Sex Education In Schools
In schools' time tables better stay,
In conversations have its way,
Of hope offers a genuine ray:
The sex act not a thing of play...
Children could themselves with sex slay,
For its sought chance fervently pray,
No longer for Fried-Rice filled tray;
Fried Rice thrash with fun far from gay...
In schools' time tables won't hatch fray;
Cases high who has gone astray:
Big
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Categories:
schools, allusion, child, cry, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Schools Have It Backwards
Kicking and hitting used to be unusual in a classroom.
In many classrooms it is same-oh-same-oh these days.
Icy screams that raise hair on your neck are becoming normal.
Sadly, parents are not in school to see what is happening.
They would be horrified at the behaviors we tolerate.
“You are not in trouble” is our mantra, but they should
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Categories:
schools, school,
Form: Narrative
Rules When Schools Consist of Religious Fools
Many schools consist of religious fools
Arrogant teachers and misguided ambition
With 23 years of teaching experience
My transaction reflects five rules
Rule 1
Your colleagues are not your friends
They will turn on you from time to time
Rule 2
Watch for hypocrites
There are those who claim holiness
But are filthy inside
Rule 3
There are those who judge everybody
Because they have given up on
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Categories:
schools, education,
Form: Free verse
We Went To Different Schools Together
We went to different schools… together
walked on opposite sides of a street
that constituted an invisible border.
There were differences…..but not really.
We walked slowly, as if to spend time together,
assessing the others clothing, shoes, gait.
Eye contact was forbidden
as we had been warned…..about them
as they….about us.
Smiles were fleeting sorties into danger.
We found, as children do,
ways to challenge the
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Categories:
schools, discrimination, growing up, innocence,
Form: Free verse
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