You must break every rule
to teach these ones.
Hand out cigarettes
instead of extra credit points

Read Burroughs instead of Milton.
That hell is fresher to them.

Lesson plans are the architecture of failure.
They make the lesson the goal, not the children.
Use a dartboard to assign grades.
It would just as accurately gauge their learning.

Teach the American Revolution
by launching an American Revolution.
Today, students, we will overthrow the Administration
and institute an Anarchist Republic

(The Anarchist Republic already reigns.
We simply refuse to recognize it.)

If the kids get a smoking patio
can we have a wet bar in the teachers' lounge?
I have surrendered to the inevitable,
I have been beaten into submission.

When I catch the couple in the closet
I send them to the office for not using a condom.