A Rant

Why is it that you can gossip about other students

But yet you can't help out that kid over there getting bullied?

Why is it that the bell doesn't release us

But if we are late, we get chided for tardiness

Even if its just a second or two...

Oh my I didn't realize I missed NOTHING of class

Please count me tardy

Or why is it that you must single out that kid

Who falls asleep in class, for good reason

Maybe he was up late last night doing your homework

Maybe she works a job that goes late into the night

Or maybe they don't even have a bed to sleep in

Try and take the time to know them

Before you come down in harsh judgement

You are not God

You do not know what goes on at home

Or inside them

But wait you must  go by the book right?

It's "the rules", written by people

Who have never truly been in a classroom

Oh you haven't graded my papers yet?

Cause you have other papers to grade?

Well sorry but I have other teacher's homework to do

Learning should be an enjoyable experience

Not the experience that today's society has created

Dull, boring, uncreative and gray

Where the students are told what to think

Told what they should be

Where they are just passed along

Even if they learned squat

Students should want to learn

To quench their thirst for knowledge

Students should want to come to school

Students should be absorbing actual knowledge

Like a sponge absorbs water

Not just memorizing formulas, theories, vocabulary

But knowing to apply it to real life situations

That is what true learning is all about