Subtract & Divide - Gouge Away

You say it’s our fault that the kids aren’t learning

You subtract encouragement to make us feel worthless

You steal our supplies and treat us like criminals

While pleading for band-aids and glue

Yet all you give us are higher demands

And daily trainings are just reprimands

Modern education is a sweatshop

Throw the wrenches in the cogs to make this machine stop

I won’t teach by your standards

So I’m not your kind of teacher

Fuck this abuse

To comply, I refuse

Working for free ain’t working for me

For someone who spits on and on about accountability

I see you owning up to nothing

Exploit children who need help most for your own avail

While you dissolve the services that should be entailed

Teaching is not ink on paper

Learning is not submissive

Half off teachers, defeated and abused

Half off education, tired and used