This Sixth-Grader’s Poem On School Funding Will Break Your Heart
"We are taking away schools and building prisons in their place."
This Tweet is making the rounds today, purportedly a sixth-grader’s poem about lousy school funding in Philly. Wagner Middle School is in North Philly, in the West Oak Lane neighborhood.
RT @flyydivachic: A 6th grader's perspective on the inhumane lack of funding #phillyeducation #fundourschools pic.twitter.com/dCQGi0ArxK
— Faye Anderson (@andersonatlarge) November 13, 2013
And here’s an independent picture, just in case the Tweet above doesn’t work for some reason: