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Death TAKs

in the state of texas TAKs testing is done every year in highschool as a diagnostic test that decides if you graduate...

Accept my apologies, I’m about to diminish your administrative ideologies,
History is more than the facts of timelines and chronologies,
Math is more than the sums and differences of different quantities,
English is more than stacks of essays being judged upon preset qualities,
If I’m too outrageous, just call the authorities,
But when you write me up, make sure you write down all of these
And keep them in your notebook, take a good look, at the notes you just took
Go home post them on your face book, let people know the words that shook up
Schools, made them lose their cools and look like fools, did I break the rules?
I only spoke my mind, but when I opened my mouth my arrest warrant was signed
listen a little longer, I’m sure you’ll find, that it was never my intention to disturb this grind
Here is my explanation, I’m just sick of having class that’s just a mass of boring-ass memorization,
Teaching the bare minimum because of standardization,
It’s the TAKSation of our generation! The ultimate equation, for forced retardation
Time for us to rebel and succeed from this nation!
Scream and raise hell till they stop this sedation.
Roar out battle crys as we become allies to fight the axis,
Using our parent’s money to in return TAKS us.
They assault us with scantrons and dropp bombs of thousands upon hundreds of unbubbled choices, we try to raise our voices, but we are just a booklet number and a random selection of darkened ovals, how can a jumble of generated numbers mumble and have a voice to exercise their right to free speech audibly, we gotta deserve it, and we ought to preserve it. And we need to speak out before we get TAKS to death.

poem by Brendan Flowers
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