Mom decries violent poem Quote:
CALGARY - A woman in a small town near Calgary is livid that a poem depicting a teacher violently attacking students was taught in her daughter's Grade 6 class just one day after the mass shooting at Virginia Tech last week.
The piece called The Lesson was written by British poet Roger McGough and was published in the 1970s, apparently as a piece of satire. But Carol Watson of Crossfield said is was totally inappropriate to be read to students especially considering the timing after 33 students and staff were shot dead at a college campus in the United States.
"I'm absolutely appalled," said Watson. "I can't believe an adult would think this is an appropriate poem to read out to Grade 6 class."
The poem starts with a teacher coming into a class and announcing the theme for the day would be violence and it would be a lesson "you'll never forget."
The teacher then cuts, hacks and shoots students. The Lesson includes a verse: "'Please may I leave the room, sir' a trembling vandal enquired, 'Of course you may,' said the teacher, put the gun to his temple and fired."
The incident is under investigated according to the Rockyview School Division.
"We're still gathering information," said school board spokeswoman Sally Powis. "The issue is under investigation and we will deal with the teacher directly if necessary.
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Some people sure are idiots.... I mean.... that's just bad taste alone reading that in a school, not including the fact that it was read the very next day after the shootings.
What glue are people inhaling when they think these days?
Reading a bit of what I can read above in the image..... it seems to end with the teacher throwing a grenade..... so basically it's a poem promoting teachers taking out their frustrations on their students..... from what I can read, there's nothing practical or logical about this poem, except to invoke fear.... esspecially to grade 6 kids.
Who knows.... maybe he was getting fed up and figured he'd scare them a bit.