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Product Of The American Education System

A poetic reflection on what high school education has done to its students.

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Last night I got three hours of sleep

I know right?

Haven’t had that much sleep this whole week

I know I know. You’ll say get more sleep, take care of yourself.

You know, you’re right.

But let me ask you this:

How the heck am I supposed to when you’re giving me four hours a night?


I’m not blaming you,

You want us to succeed, to think and be scholarly

You fight and you fight,

Trying to teach us,

Only to be defeated by the bore

Of the common core


Full of haughty P.h.d’s who can’t get their heads out of their asses,

College board has produced mindless zombies in masses,

Assigned mind numbing busy work,

Only to learn how to spit out senseless information for inaccurate testing

Running on fumes and caffeine

Carrying the weight of their stress in the bags under their eyes

America’s future are a bunch of addicts

Whose only form of self worth comes from a red number scratched into the top of a paper.

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