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No Child Left Behind? These Kids Just Want to Come in From Cold

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I don't understand

Why do we awake to come to school.

We come to learn but there are no tools.

No wonder our education is free,

'Cause we have nothing we need.

We come to school to learn, yes, we're trying.

After high school, there is not time.

I made it through school for 11 years.

Now, I hear, it's like nobody cares.

How in the hell can we be taught

If no supplies have yet been bought?

My school tells us to be the best,

But we have broken computers with no Internet.

Many tell me to chill and don't worry.

This is the end, I hope someone heard me.

-- TERRY JOHNSON


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