From early childhood
Til our days are done;
We're conditioned to strive
For 'Number 1' ;
Anything less
is incompetency;
Everyone thinking
Of Me! Me! Me!
A society rent
By competition;
Virtue displaced
By blind ambition;
A victor's not the one
Who wins first-place;
All are winners
Who finish the race!
How unfair it is that children are subjected to such pressure! Childhood wasted, cramming for tests...OMG!
On a related theme, school students here are becoming stressed because they can't get 100% in tests. A program is underway to get the message across that 95% is still OK.
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keith jeffries
Sun 15th Sep 2019 11:40
Chrystel,
A good poem with a theme that needs to be broadcast. Learning is not necessarily achieving. My penultimate school report said, "Keith talks too much in class". This was followed by my final report which said, "Who is this boy?", by which time I had perfected the art of truancy.
Thank you for this
Keith