A Little Poem

Corporate leaders want engineers not artists, thinkers, or music makers.
Corporate leaders want lots of workers, a dime a dozen if you please.
Corporate leaders are really tired of having to hire the Japanese!
Corporate leaders got real tight with Georgie Bush one long ago night,
they convinced him we would be better off,
if we raised our standards and all that stuff.
Then those who like to make those tests, said to this "YES, YES, YES!"
From there we got NCLB and MME and now MMC!
Basically what Corporate said is make everyone learn the same
and if everyone can't learn the same,
the teachers and the schools are to blame!
People who like data, like to use it to compare,
and sadly the US often doesn't fair as well as other lands,
but I wonder how it can when in our land,
we let all of our children come inside our schools
and don't decide at eight or nine if they have all of the right tools
to go on to secondary school!
We are America, and I am proud of that,
I am proud that we give everyone a chance to be who they can be,
but this is changing rapidly.
Soon, if things continue,
there will be no artists, no thinkers, no music makers
because the corporate world has no need for these,
they need engineers if your please!
Rosemary