OPEN COURT

To really better education,
Requires of teachers that they think
About their wrongful toleration
Of lessons that are rinky dink.
Instead of teaching kids what’s critical
The school boards’ plans are parasitical
On companies like Open Court.
To these a teacher should retort:
“I want to make my students clamor
For understanding when they go
To battle with the Status Quo.
And if their status quo’s the slammer,
When they get out they’ll understand
The school board helped to get them canned.”