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Just wanted to share a poem I wrote for teacher appreciation week because this one was a bummer above all others. A little context--I'm teacher in NJ and we use Genesis to mark tardies, submit grades, etc., and there is a reference to it being used below. Anyway, enjoy!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! 
The nature of educational nomenclature
Is as principled as my principal, which
Is to say, not at all--I mean, it’s fine to call 
Those Fs Ds, there were difficulties!
In fact, the teacher is not a preacher, our 
Grades are not gospel, so why be hostile?
Indeed, marking tardiness is just foolhardiness,
Why crusade when they’ll be cross with you?
And Genesis is Jersey’s nemesis--the nebulous
Application that is the administration’s 
Obfuscation operation, disappearing 
Writeups, clearing tardies, and smearing
The parties that care, tearing apart these
Teachers and those cheering them on from
The bleachers--graduation’s become a
Summation of parental menstruation, 
Rather than a demonstration of ability, or
Even stability; the parents’ complaint is the
Taint of merit, and invokes the parrot response:
Congratulations, you passed! All half-assed
Work is worthy, it’s not mercy, it’s for her, see?
A student’s feelings are the only real things,
Marks are a farce, designed to make an arse
Of them--it’s unreasonable to expect the feasible,
The achievable is unreachable, so it’s best to 
Make the student unimpeachable--after all, 
Our children are the future!