Lessen Plans

Our creation’s a nation too obsessed with testing and dissections.
A generation of multiple choices questions,
And not enough reflection or progressions.
We lessen our lessons.
As we head in the wrong direction,
I’m just trying to make some connections
Because between education and oppression there’s a fine line.
Guessin’ the time’s mine
Cause the blind’s still leading the blind.
I’m becoming bitter,
Intellectual rigor withers,
The lights dim as serpents of shadows slither
Into our perception and hinder.
System’s just a business trying to grow bigger, ha, go figure.
Enough of the trickery,
About time we reconsider.
Take it from history; literacy has turned misery into liberty and victory.
Ironic that we are trying to leave no child left behind, while we race to the top.
If being dumb is the new cool, then we got to make it stop.
We got teachers who aren’t teaching,
And preachers who aren’t preaching
Students struggling, reaching,
Not finding the meaning
Cause they’re not doing their readings.
But if you can’t join ‘em, then beat ‘em.
‘Bout time we put the “read” back into freedom.
No student is a number, what happened to the humanity?
A classroom without relationships is just a damn tragedy.
So sad to see, students going unnoticed
When after all, children are our main focus.
So let’s rethink the way we teach and learn,
Give the underdogs and freaks a turn,
Go out side the box, and break the mold.
You can have a degree, but real teaching takes a soul.
Sobriety’s over, we’re drunk off ignorance.
Society’s soldier, I’m just trying to make a difference.