Teachers’ Thoughts and a Mother’s
Actions
Had
“This child’s dumb and we’re going to place him,
With others
who’ll always come last,
’Cause his
constant, disruptive behaviour,
Is disturbing
the rest of the class,
And we know
that he needs medication,
For his conduct
makes us quite aghast.
After all,
we’re so busy advancing,
Those children
with such low I.Q’s,
That they need
undivided attention,
And the child’s
far too big for his shoes,
With his
endless demands and his questions,
About subjects
we don’t care to choose.
And when he’s
not talking, he’s dreaming,
Can’t
concentrate on what we say,
When we want
them all to be learning,
Your mad son
keeps on turning away,
So we know that
he needs medication,
Get him off to
a doctor today.
Just look at
his big head, it’s awful,
His reading and
writing are bad,
Go away, take him off to a doctor,
His behaviour
is driving us mad,
And we know
that some good medication,
Will work and
will make us feel glad.”
Then the mother
of young Thomas Alva,
Herself a
schoolteacher by trade,
With the rare
gift of great understanding,
Took her bright Thomas home … where he played,
And she knew as
she answered his questions,
It was genius
her son displayed …
To those
teachers whose minds were determined,
That children
should all be the same …
And the stance
of those foolish schoolteachers,
And their system
would both be to blame,
Had the world
been denied his inventions,
Had his mom left
them his brain to maim.
And this story
is not of just Thomas,
Whose spirit his
mother reclaimed,
For the clever,
maligned young inventor,
Who went on to
achieve such great fame,
It’s the story
of countless lost children,
Who all, due to
the world’s greatest drain …
Of young genius
thirsting for knowledge,
Were condemned
to a lifetime of pain,
By the world’s
worst invention, a system,
Which
tries to make people the same,
A foul system of
forcing, not learning …
Of
society’s loss – and its shame.
Copyright SCHOOL MANIA – Adele Carrall –
2000.
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