Saga of the DC Schools
This entry was posted on 9/2/2007 4:09 PM and is filed under Poems.
The children of the District should not be ignored,
The condition of the schools must be deplored.
Urgent repairs, on average, take a year,
And schools without textbooks are nothing to cheer.
Thirteen thousand per student, puts spending near the top
But the money's mismanaged, the programs are a flop.
Test scores are so low, everyone should be hissing,
But it's hard to do homework when the textbooks are missing.
But the schools now have a champion, he's the Mayor, Adrian Fenty,
He's taken over the reigns, and there's energy a plenty.
There's been champions before, and they've been slain by the dragon,
Mismanagement and abuse, caused spirits to be saggin.
Will it be different this time, when Fenty makes his bid,
I know we all pray so, for each and every kid.
He's brought in his own Chancellor, her name is Michelle Rhee,
She's not from within the system, and she's tearing through the debris.
She found a warehouse full of books, right under our nose,
Then, she got them cataloged, everyone's on their toes.
The battle's far from over, it's just at the beginning,
But if we stay on this course, there may be a chance of winning.
It's truly up to Mayor Fenty, he mustn't forget this dimension,
Things will continue to get done, where he focuses his attention.
