After Gil Scott-Heron
You will not be able stay home, brother.
You will not be able to turn off, tune out or drop maths.
You will not be able to lose yourself in dreams or skip out
for play during lunchtimes because
Your education will not be improvised.
Your education will not be improvised.
Your education will not be brought to you by Minecraft on iPads
without teacher interruptions.
Your education will not live up to adverts with teachers blowing
bugles
or leading the charge like a Coach Carter, Iris Stevenson
or Samuel Pickering, Jr.
to eat haute cuisine concocted in Jamie Oliver’s ‘The
Fifteen’.
Your education will not be improvised.
Your education will not be brought to you by or with any
theatre.
It will not star Harper Lee, John Steinbeck or anyone not
British.
Your education will not give you more self-esteem.
Your education will not get rid of your stress.
Your education will probably make you a whole lot thinner
because
Your education will not be improvised, brother.
There will be no pictures of you and your best mate
pushing an Iceland trolley into a canal on YouTube
or trying to take the interactive whiteboard off the
classroom wall.
The BBC will not be allowed to publish leaked reports of
exam failures
or academy take-overs.
Your education will not be improvised.
There will be no pictures of Ministers shutting down schools
with their deliberate policies.
There will be no pictures of Ministers shutting down schools
with their deliberate policies.
There will be no pictures of Ken Robinson being run out of England on a rail
for his brand new
process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of cool kids
walking down the corridor
with their hands in their pockets and chatting.
They can save that for some other occasion.
Bad Education, Waterloo Road, and Educating Essex will no
longer seem so damned relevant,
and parents will not care if teachers are leaving the
profession in unprecedented droves
because their kids will be in classrooms
working for a
brighter day.
Your education will not be improvised.
There will be no criticisms in the local or national news
and no pictures of scary-faced anti-Academy liberationists
or Nicky Morgan holding her nose.
The theme song will not be produced by Daft Punk or
Will.I.Am,
nor sung by Adele, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran or anyone who won
the X Factor.
Your education will not be improvised.
Your education will not stray off task, all thanks to messages
contained in white papers, from Whitehall, written by white people.
You will not have to worry about group work in your
classroom,
ever being asked to think,
or if your education is whole.
Your education will not go better with Google.
Your education will not fight the GERM and may cause bad
debt.
Your education will put you in the passenger seat.
Your education will not be improvised, will not be
improvised,
will not be improvised, will not be improvised.
Your education won’t have no re-sits brother.
Your education will be scripted.
I also loved this! Thank you again.
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