What the "educators" always forget..

by KristaBeth14

September 18, 2013

Everyone expects you to get straight A's, but they

Don't remember you have 3 jobs. They don't ask

Until your GPA has dropped, or you start skipping

Class. You know you can do the work but there is

Almost never enough time. One bad grade leads to one

Thousand and you start feeling stupid and

Inferior. Why don't these so called educators remember that

Our generation has to work for a living. We do

Not have 5 hours a night to do homework or study.

And this is what we call EDUCATION?

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KristaBeth14Sep 18, 2013

This probably is a very elimentary poem, but I broke the lines up so when you read vertically down the side of the poem it reads EDUCATION.

ShalanaSep 18, 2013

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