Is there anybody there?
There are still 3 days left for submission to The Spectator. Has everyone deserted this thread? I've gone for 'the other side of the coin', trying to steer away from the obvious - but I'm thinking that perhaps no-one will even see it. C'est la vie!
I really need to lessen my depression,
from thinking of tomorrow’s English lesson.
We’re doing Hamlet, Shakespeare’s Dane; I dread it.
I’d swear our teacher hasn’t even read it!
She’ll deign to tell the class she can’t elicit
the right responses from us. (No explicit
instructions.) ‘Summerize’ was on the whiteboard.
At least, if she could spell, she’d hit the right chord.
It’s dishonest, it’s illicit, that she’s ‘teaching’.
Is it any bloody wonder we’re not reaching
our potential? We dissent – to no avail, though –
we’ve been let down by ineptitude; we’ll fail. So…
the mass descent, decline, in teaching grammar,
and punctuation, spelling, makes us clamour
for erudition in our nation's schools.
We might be kids; not all of us are fools.
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