The "Listening Session" at Bethune: Message Bleated, Children Cheated

At Bethune,

reading 

proficiency:

ten

percent;

yet the gilders

gild on,

they never

relent;

math and science

both stalled

disastrously

at five, 

yet the glossers

gloss on,

in full

shuck,

replete

jive:

"Excellent teachers, 

caring staff,"

the mantra

goes,

never mind 

those

chronic academic

woes;

'cause at our

"Listening Sessions"

an upbeat message

must always be

bleated,

never mind all

those graduates 

we've ceaselessly

cheated.