HOME* Main Poem Index* January Poem List* Next Poem School Failure Intelligence quotients have been ignored Whence tutors have been improperly trained Exposure to method, the planning board Thought others could do what they once disdained Natural intellects self teach as faith Independent abilities at hand Those who cannot imagine godly wraith Compensates lack of thought when priests demand Cadres of union members removed clocks Rescheduling milestones youth once attained Disrupting tooling of dialogue stocks For those whom advantage was to be gained Some who could not use training were advanced Because they had been processed so to speak Letting platitudes replace thought enhanced Though writing in essays seemed rather bleak Thus cadres believed students would perform Despite lacking reasoned logical flow Explanations having depleted form Depleted of thought beyond IQ's low Common among politicly correct Assisted against the mentally strong God they were taught had failed to select The weak and the frail who claimed to belong (c)ERA 07:20 pm 1/29/03