Credits to Stephanie at Teacher Under Construction for mentioning this first. It is a few months old but worth a few listens:
As an aspiring teacher and slam poet, this find was absolutely something phenomenal. I’m speechless. You just have to hear it for yourself.
Listen to the full poem here:
Wonderful poem and reading by that student. It is a shame those who choose to help students over the long haul, through thick and thin, as a lifelong mission are vilified, attacked, and made to feel inferior.
Screw the business model, privatizers, and reformers. They are in it for the money only.
It is a great reminder that students can and have to be powerful allies of ours against the scourge of education deform.
Spoken like a true student, who sees thru all the crap..the corporate Ed reformers spew! This is definitely a wonderful work of NON-FICTION. I so, enjoyed it! Thanks
Leave it to the kids to see through the vain/ condescending/patronizing attitudes; maybe the adults could learn something from them.