Are You Smarter Than a Highschool Dropout

by mcradloffPlatteville, Wisconsin, USA

Feb 2013 717 Views 10 comments

Are You Smarter Than a Highschool Dropout?

Are you smarter than a highschool dropout?
Cause there's gonna be some consequences later
Officer Officer
Now we're back in jail
Are you smarter than you used to be?
Are you smarter than a highschool dropout?
Grab some weed and a bag of shrooms
Officer Officer
Now we're back in jail
So are you smart enough for state prison?

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Posted: Feb 2013

About this poem:

Parody of one of my favorite show songs, Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader? I think it would be funny to have a show with high school dropouts as the kids helping some contestant answer the questions.

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windyweatherlySan Francisco, California USAFeb 15, 2013

Mac, thanks for your your always very insightful writes. Let me express how I always enjoy and thirst for all your comments that are so diversified yet very potent eye opener to all the angles of our socio political and economic practices and structures. I moist enjoy them. In here it might be a parody but it does pose a very legitimate issue when it comes ot out educaltionaal system. I was reading the wall street journal just the other dayf and a whole page was covered and the inevitable deterioration of our educational system as expressed in the factual study of graduates in COLLEGE who can't seem to creat a simple essay as part of their test. The date of the journal was on February 12, 2013. I was really sick reading it because how can it be and what could be done.

But we do all need to be responsible in soving this problem. I am sure of that.

Thanks for sharing Mac

Windy

windyweatherlySan Francisco, California USAFeb 15, 2013

Msc sorry for all the typos, I was writing it so fast and didn't even edit it, but I am sure you get the point.

Thanks again.

mcradloffOPPlatteville, Wisconsin USAFeb 16, 2013

windyweatherly, thanks for your comment. I was watching one of my old dvds yesterday by Michael Moore about how people are scared into going to prison instead of fighting for their innocence. One county in California had over 800 cases, and only one went to trial. One of the problems with school that I was faced with is the bully mentality of it. The teachers are there for their lush retirement packages and the children are left to fend for themselves. Those that make it to college are strapped with enormous debt and many find themselves worse off after a college degree, with no job to pay off their loans.

windyweatherlySan Francisco, California USAFeb 16, 2013

Bull's Eye, my dear Mac.

Yes such a very sad state and even more so that we are faced with the inability to cope with these aggravating and factual challenges. I am so disillusioned by how our system of which are so entrusted in believing is being so callous in handling and irresponsible in their obligations. Well, I am trying my best to see what I can do no matter how insignificant and little my aspiration is going to affect it at all.

Identifying the problems are no brainer but it is in the anlyses and creating an achievable structure of change that bedevil us. We can only hope that it will be turned around soon or we all be doomed before we even know it.

Thanks Mac.

Windy

mcradloffOPPlatteville, Wisconsin USAFeb 17, 2013

madtat29, thanks for the comment, and thanks for watching.

OndosSydney, New South Wales AustraliaFeb 17, 2013

Mac...you stay true to your uniqueness, every time and I admire that and always look out for your posts, be it poetry or comments.

mcradloffOPPlatteville, Wisconsin USAFeb 18, 2013

Ondos, thanks for your comment. It's nice to get some positive feedback from the land down under.

mcradloffOPPlatteville, Wisconsin USAFeb 19, 2013

NowIsAllUhave, thanks for the comment. I was watching Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader this morning. A Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader ended up getting 500 bucks. She didn't know the name of the ship that came over in 1620. It was the Mayflower.