After School Tutor.
They want my blood, to hunt me down.
Their opinions formed with a frown.
Don’t need facts. Believe what’s told.
But here’s the truth, black and bold.
I have a weekly hour with your child.
To undo the mess the school’s compiled
I work and coach, with little gratitude.
Your child’s education has been screwed.
I teach the illiterate, how to write.
But parents want success over night.
Never blame schools for a wasted day
Blame the firefighter, for whom they pay.
Convention says school’s way is correct!
I prove them wrong, whatever next?
I look down, with smug, smiley eyes.
Teach them to read, spell and analyse.
David Cox 20/04/23
Categories:
tuition, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
A sweet memory of our school days
We walked to school everyday
With a light school bag
Under a blue sky
With rain or sunshine abound
Only a few books in the school bag
But many flowers pluck
Or junk food bought along the way
We only had to finished our homework
Before we're free to play
We memorised lessons for our tests
Which were simple and straight forward questions
Never got tuition
We're left to learn and recite ourselves
Till we remembered
A simple style of school life
But with confidence,independence and wisdom
A nature lover
A love for freedom
A love for a simple life
Categories:
tuition, confidence, freedom, homework, nature,
Form: Free verse
Tuition becomes a fashion
Teachers to cushion
Pupils in their way to mission
Categories:
tuition, abuse, children,
Form: Free verse
__('> __('> __('> __('> __('> __('> __('>
Tommy's grade point is under.
His SAT's... a disgrace.
Mommy's paid off the college in cash (just in case)
One can't lower the bar to let rats in the race
and then wonder why rodents are running the place!
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Categories:
tuition, graduation, money, mother son,
Form: Monorhyme
Should I punctuate or should I not?
I mean where the hell do I put the dot?
A comma here, a comma there,
a comma bloody anywhere!
What about this; and what about that:?
and don't get me started on this little ####
Hashtag, I understand a sentence needs some punctuation otherwise it would lose all coherence it would be hard to tell where one thought started and another one ended conversation with myself is easy 'cos I know what I mean know what I mean?but...
...is it essential in a poem?
Maybe yes, maybe no.
I see it used and I see it not,
and so far this is what I got.
Poetry is people , poetry is heart,
Punctuation may be...
...just the last place to start!
Categories:
tuition, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Limerick crochet: Once budding Writer took private tuition
Once budding Writer took private tuition
Father wished him a Man of Distinction
He got straight As in school
No one thought him a fool
At higher studies won commendation
Got high-paying job in government
Promotions to highest firmament
Wished to be great writer
Looked around for tutor
Who showed the way out of predicament
“First enrol in creative writing schools
Where Shakespeare and Cervantes are thought fools:
They didn’t take tuition
Abhorred imitation –
Follow our advice and drool out stools!”
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014
Categories:
tuition, irony,
Form: Limerick
College Tuition Goes Up and Up
By Elton Camp
There is hardly any college that even tries
To find a way it can reasonably economize
With their plans it doesn’t seem it need fit
Because they have found a money-filled pit
If the college’s finances should get a bit rough
Then on students & parents they make it tough
Tuition and fees they will raise again this year
Also the next year, so reductions they never fear
They think there’s no limit to what folks will pay
It doesn’t bother them to treat students that way
So they try to see just how much they can get
No matter about student loans and crushing debt
They hire deans, secretaries and assistants galore
So they just have to charge ever more and more
Greedy professors demand always increasing pay
Lest, like a herd of angry jackasses they will bray
But students may decide it isn’t worth the cost
And then to the colleges, everything will be lost
We will then see a bunch of unemployed slobs
For without enough students they will have no jobs
Categories:
tuition, education
Form: Rhyme