LAUSD Black & Brown Students

LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified for Student Discrimination LASPD, only funded to create an environment of suppression Consisting of many schools dominantly black and brown Superintendent Deasy what exactly is going up in downtown? My future is looking kind of blurry Constantly I see faces of mothers, tears full of worry Suspensions, Expulsions, Harassment, and Handcuffs Students get tickets from being late to school, to taking a puff But, students need to be send to counselors, not cops Ayo LAUSD, all this needs to stop Daily, students are being left behind If you are telling us that you don't care, How are we suppose to advance? You are giving up on us instead of giving us a chance Please do not allow our schools to be handed to outsiders What will happen to students who are economically disadvantaged? Seems like being brown we are not advantaged I see my people's future drowning We are not dumb, we know what's going on. Who do you think you're clowning? We care about our education, so why don't you? Take a walk with me and tell me the truth What's your plan for our youth? Are you preparing us for college or for jail? We don't want to prepare for the pen, we want to prepare for schools like Yale. Look, these are students from Los Angeles. This is the capital of gangs, drugs, and poverty. Most of us come from either broken families or broken communities. Before you kick another student to the curb, analyze their life from the start Listen to their painful stories, and I'll guarantee it'll touch your heart None of these students ever said 'I want to grow up and be a failure' But their painful lives and their jail-like schools alter their out of control behavior Provide our schools with more supplies, with better teachers, and counselors, not police So, reconsider the environment you built in LAUSD schools and make it better If it helps I wrote it as a poem instead of a form of a letter