Thursday, February 4, 2021

“San Francisco Sues its Own School District to Reopen Classes” - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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“San Francisco Sues its Own School District to Reopen Classes”

 

-Associated Press

 

Student Voices:

 

“I need help in understanding Don Quixote

Karamazov for me,” replies her friend

“For Christmas I received the Q edition

of The Oxford Book of English Verse,” says another

 

(And the Board exclaims, “The Q edition!? Eeeeeeek!”)

 

“I’m prepping Latin with our parish priest”

“Well, I’m tackling The Faerie Queene this year”

“I’m writing our class play in iambic hexameter”

“I wish I could read Pushkin in the original Russian”

 

(And the Board asks, “Pushkin? What’s their team like this season?”)

 

Student Chorus:

 

“We’ve got to study harder, everyone agrees

Lest we be as dense as our school’s trustees”

 

 

 

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