‘Leave It All Be’

A sample from Book 4

 Leave It All Be
  
 ma' lord...be gone
 your grace here...so wrong
 ―stayed on track
non-constant watching back
 since I's young
no steady song sung
 I's get use to a way
then thes' be's the day
 some different mold of clay
 readin' I's be laughin'
  
 yes―there in the secon' grade
 we's laugh...giggle
what fun we made
  
 I can tell a book mighty fine
 it had all stuck in my mind
 then came the time
got me all out of line
  
 yes...fourth grade it was
 cuz books were a fuss
no longer my lust
  
 I's a bit slow
but stories...they do go
 I's 'member the row-boat
 ―that train that could go
  
 readin' fast and all
 ―grades began to fall
  
 if they'd just let it be
 I'd have straigh b's
  
 now...it's only f's
 behind...my skills was left
  
 I's didn't make through the res'
 all those long tes'
 too much of a reading mess
  
 this way...that way
 wish someone had just say
 leave it all be
she's fine you see
 I know...I know
 beings here on the street
 isn't good fa' me
 but the truth be
I's still there
 enjoying reading
in second grade
with a b

(November 21, 2013)—[‘Leave It All Be’ was written in 2011.] Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes pays sometimes. I’m a teacher in heart…always will be.

If the government would stay out the way, every child would actually have a chance to excel. All they need is a little love, a hug, someone who actually cares, who actually is allowed to teach instead of follow some desk-junky’s IDEA of what a child NEEDS to learn without ever having been a teacher themselves.

Just let them be, let them learn on their own pace, in their own way; let the teachers teach. There’s a reason why we USED to be #1 in education in the world. There’s a reason why we ARE NOT anymore. Love and God, and allowing them to learn, allowing a teacher to actually teach. Just saying….

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