Another poem on education, your comments please?

Question

SCHOOL DAYS

To put it quite simply I hated school.

The things that for some inspire nostalgia

To me are akin to a peculiar neuralgia.

In grade school I attended two and

Sometimes three schools per year

School spirit so grand

Inspiring fear

Loyalty I couldn't give

No matter how long I should live.

Each school its own penmanship

Allowing no other

Caused me page after page to rip

And then not to bother.

I saw the hypocrisy

And class distinctions,

Mindless beaurocracy

Varied intentions.

My mind, my own,

Not their ground to be sown,

No one's bush to be pruned

No one's harp to be tuned.

Friends I made few,

Those I did proved true.

I read, "Out damned spot,

Out I say", while others read,

"See Spot run. Run, Spot, run."

Then later Beowulf behind

The Fifth grade reader hid,

A way around boredom to find,

My reading long before school begun

Needed something to feed a hungry mind.

Little in my classes could make that bid.

© Albert K. Jungers, April 11, 2008, All rights Reserved

Answer 1

I can certainly identify with you, I nearly failed first grade for disrupting reading class, I had already read all of Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, The Phantom, Tarzan and all the National Geographic magazines my Grandmother had saved from the 1920"s.  Hated school, loved the library.

Answer 2

Your poem expresses a universal problem: what to do with gifted and talented students? For close to two decades I taught these students at high school and college level and when the end-of-class bell rang, we all moaned in despair.

My school district recognizes students of all ages, both those  with intellectual challenges and those with superior intellect, as well as those in the middle.  All students are "mainstreamed" in sports and other activities, but are given special attention in terms of intellectual development. Classes are not larger than 25 per teacher.

It is a shame this is not done in your school system.  

Answer 3

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Answer 4

There are those of us, who find that we'll be left behind...unless we conform.  I'm not the norm...neither, I believe, are you.

It was indeed difficult...but we did prevail!