(10-word ultra-flash fiction)
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Teaching bubbly children to read, watching bureaucracies crush their avidness.
Three hours on my ass; consultants lecture, leech away life.
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Kids create their own behavior guide; their fairness merits immortality!
One-hour writing, one of math: conformity stinking, formulaic repression.
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NO child left behind(!) where exclusion would let her blossom.
Creating scary stories after school with seven giggling Bram Stokers.
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Our contract again renegotiated, our professional self-esteem slavishly recheapened.
Assessment day: standardized scoring and tracking of beautifully unique children.
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Berated for arriving late, humiliated, like teachers deliberately invented entropy.
FAC arrives, flooding our empty arteries with inebriating, deceptive palliatives!
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Twelve hours, six days, teachers' sangre, lágrimas stained many blackboards.
Grade homework, prepare lessons, parent letters, Monday-lecture vaccine, etc.
RudyChG
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5 comments:
Those etc. will get you every time, if not cetera'd, you get et.
Hi Rudy,
I work in a year around school. Next week is our parent conference.
Teaching is great! But the rest: testing/no child left behind/etc is terrible. I know your feelings.
I'm hearing some definite frustrations here!! Anything I can do? You have so much to offer these children--hang in there past the negatives!!
Sorry I missed Friday night--how did it go? I need to stop by for a signature in your book sometime or meet you for that FAC!!
Like René said, teaching is great!
It's the rest. . .
RudyChG
This is the best comment I've seen on our current education efforts. I don't have to wait for the next big report from the latest chosen foundation. Education should be a joy at times and something to anticipate in general. School is where a lot of it happens. Teaching is an art, like this poem. Thanks for posting Sensei Sedano.
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