Do You Want To Be a Teacher
I’d love to be a teacher
If they’d just let me teach
But teaching students now a days
Is so far out of reach
You need to be a lawyer
So you don’t get sued
You need to be their mother
To curb their attitude
You have to be a writer
For all reports you write
You have to keep your own thoughts
Completely out of sight
You have to teach for test scores
You have to let them pass
You have to have a thick skin
To put up with their sass
You have to be a room cop
Lest things get out of hand
You have to know the state tests
Then teach just to that plan
And you do it all for peanuts
There’s no money to be made
And after just a few weeks
Your enthusiasm fades
And the icing on this “teacher’s cake”
Is really awfully thin
You have to fight the system
Knowing you can’t win
Yes, I’d love to be a teacher
And teach kids what I know
But with all that other crap thrown in
I’d have to answer – “NO”
Mdailey 10/27/11
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