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Academic Failure
I don’t think Pluto imagined this
Tired eyes and blank faces
Children hoping for disasters or causes to cancel school
Repeating, memorizing, testing,
Thinking only when to told to do so
Repeating the same mistakes as before without a care
Throwing away knowledge for a grade that is meaningless in the long term
We ignore ancient philosophies for modern bigotry
We continue to kill creativity in return for robots
Individualism is crushed till no one knows who they really are
Taking advantage of impressionable youths and turning them into clay
Molding them into the perfect image of society, what it might need in a few years
They hope to make it to adulthood without issues, but it’s not guaranteed
Adulthood brings challenges to their minds and they shut down
The education they received was useless and is thrown out the minute the doors close
Education is failing its purpose and the results are tangible
The students crumble and no one catches them
The students are walked upon and kicked when laying there for a minute
They are lazy, they don’t try, they just don’t care
Why are we like this, why are they like this?
We aren’t supposed to be like this, yet here we are.
Fighting to be a human in a world full of robots
Outcasted by those we hold close for thinking differently.
Education was supposed to be the light in the dark,
A gift granted to us by something more,
Yet it has become shackles carting us off to prison
And no one will fix what they don’t believe is broken.
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