Baffled
I am the USA
I teach my (our) children
many many children year after year
I am the First Amendment
trusting in Freedom
of Speech
My Right Our Right
I am the symbol of creativity
like the Creator who created all
I am asked to be rigid unbending
to be Everyteacher
But I am Who I am
I come to the shore of our
promise the edge of what
our founding mothers/fathers
conceived for us all
I am Teacher
expecting to innovate
asked to be Everyteacher
but have a human family
a diverse individual one
As expected I desire to teach the standards
still want what my newest family needs really
to learn to grow to expand
They are not a simple scripted lesson
not a mere rigid curriculum map
They are Humanity and my one true love
Forever my very soul's salvation
...what I always choose first
Ryfkah 10/20/06
(Peggy Horwitz, Los Alisos Middle School, Norwalk, California)
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