Keep Public Schools Public

I am a teen

People will say I am young

Naïve

Too quick to believe what I see

They will question me of course

Ask me where I got my facts

But no matter how reliable the source

They always seem to find some cracks

Yet when it comes to you

New secretary of public education

Your answers to our questions

Are not even strong enough

To form a shallow puddle for me to stand in

When I have more public schooling experience

Than the women who is heading the entire operation

It makes people begin to ask

If she is even up for the task

Where she would rather destroy

The very department in which she is employed

And spend the tax payers' dollars

As our students are sent into the world

As complete goners

Ms. DeVos

This is not meant to be a double cross

But the community around me wonders

Will you really help us

Or just forget our poorer brothers

I may just be sixteen

And you may think this is extreme

But one thing is for sure

No matter how much you endorse

These are our schools

This is our public

And we will not

Be your charter school test subject