Banding Together Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Together forging ahead, getting rid of educational
jargon and putting schools on human levels.
There are no seasons left to reminisce on days of
yore, for work is piling up and must be dealt with
quickly.
Teachers trying to teach are fought at every turn,
by a principal who is not good, being threatened
with losing their jobs, puts a crimp in their
teaching style.
Having to wade through piles of unimportant papers
filled with data they haven't much time to prepare
for class.
Many of the students are from broken homes without
any desires or hopes of doing anything worthwhile
or good in their lives.
Their mostly single parents have a hard enough time
living from day to day in hellfull situations, they
have no time nor inclination to put their children
on the right track.
If they'd only stop and try, showing their children
that they care about their futures, most of the
problem children would cease to be.
If parents showed more love and caring for their own,
the need for gangs would disappear.
Why are there gangs? Because lonely children left
to themselves have a need to belong to a family and
gangs fulfill those needs, although negatively.
Parents are the ones fostering the growth of gangs,
because they refuse to love and care for their own
flesh and blood, their kids.
It all reflects back upon the school eventually,
because these same children can only do poorly.
Education is slipping into the mire of ignorant
generations, pulling with it many intelligent kids
from loving homes.
They are getting pulled down by the aggressiveness
of unloved kids and being hurt by them because of
jealousy.
Nowadays, a child in school who has two natural parents
is a target for ridicule.
The school and it's principal play their parts well,
allowing it to happen and continue, wondering why angry,
caring, loving parents are coming after them.
Wondering why they're demanding change.
Everything is steadily going to be torn apart from the
inside out, as parents band together to turn things
back around.