Educate Not Poem by jenny piñero

No Time to Teach;
In Class, They Give a General Overview.
On Tests, They Want Particular Details.

No Time to Learn; All By Myself, I Got to Teach Myself a Facts:
I Got No Study Skills, I Got No Tutor,
The First Day of School, I Gotta Be Behind.

Students Got a Cheat-Sheet:
I Use Citations From Books
I Got No Time to Read.

Teachers Got a Cheat Sheet;
They Got No Time to Read IT.
They Weigh IT,
Looks Beautiful
They Grade IT A.
Looks Pretty
They Grade IT B.
Looks OK
They Grade IT C.
Looks Ugly
They Grade IT D.
Looks Can Kill
They Grade IT F.

Quantity Over Quality; Education System is Dumb
And is Gonna Get Dumber, Wastes My Good Dime,
My Good Mind, And My Good Time.
I Survive, I Don't Thrive.

Facts Move From Textbook
To Blackboard to Notebook.
Gotta Get the Facts INSIDE of ME:
No Time to Think,
No Time to Write an Outline,
No Time for Research,
No Time to Write a Rough Draft,
No Time to Reread, Revise, and Rewrite,
No Time to Write a Final Draft,
No TIme to Write My Masterpiece.
When I Get IT Back, My Work-In-Progress,
I Trash IT, I Got No Time for Junk.

Teachers Got No Time to Teach.
I Got No Time to Learn, No Time to Educate.
EDUCATE NOT.