So they say no child left behind or that they are preparing us for the real word.
Well where is that real world class that explained to us the faults of a broken home now dealing with a single parent income.
Maybe they can point me in the direction to that class that puts our men in the streets and our women on their backs for cash.
Tell me how Jason handles his mother’s depression using that formula in math class.
Or how chemistry explained why Anna was raped and abused as a child.
As we shelter ourselves in those four walls there’s a real world going on outside.
Drugs, violence, and turning tricks.
None of us was prepared for this.
Find the classes that fixed any child’s cry.
Wiping each tear from their eyes and those of their mother’s which she fights to hide.
Bring the teachers who speak of lived experiences, not just the ones of success but the dark truths of never making it.
Suicides and homicides, Prisons and grave sites, Pregnancies and STDs.
This is what most of our generation sees.
Stop pushing these bias views that we all live in a world of just knowledge and opportunity within these classes.
When reality is seen as clear as day with no race, age, gender, or religious discrimination.
So they say no child left behind or that they are preparing us for the real word.
Well where is that real world class that explains the truths I face today.