Many years ago, education was much simpler, or so it seemed! <br />You had the Three R’s, a red brick school house, and it was clean! <br />Then we added courses like Latin and Greek- of how awful- hard to speak, <br />Never fear, let us add courses that will help art, shop and Home Ec- for something to eat. <br /> <br />That’s right, food for thought, <br />After all isn’t that is what school is all about. <br />For forty plus years we followed that rule, <br />We cooked up a great education until finally in the end we listened to the political correctness fools <br /> <br />We discarded the ingredients that made our school great only to add new programs and policies which promote racism and hate.. <br />What happened to our vocational programs, places where we taught our students trades, <br />What happened to learning work as part of the dignity of man? <br />What happened to learning is easy to see, instead of learning correctly, <br />We are learning to fail because we are failing to read, <br />Sstudents are porous and need to be reached. <br /> <br />Essays, standard tests, and computer programs are great, but can they replace touch of loving parents? <br />Listen to me, just a cry in the dark, it’s not our schools that are falling apart. <br />We have lost our direction and maybe our focus. <br /> <br />For you see it not your test score that count one, two, and three <br />It simply must be the students who learn their A, B, and C’s <br />They apply what they learn, not with paper and pen, <br />but with hands, hearts, and mind and souls. <br />So we can all learn to live together happily once and again.<br /><br />Les Farmer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-three-r-s-do-not-translate-well-in-standardized-tests/
