By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org

CHICAGO – With the Chicago strike now focusing almost solely on teacher evaluations – ultimately tackling the issue of teacher quality – the question arises: just what type of people are teaching Chicago’s students.

We’ve seen the socialists, the anarchists and the radicals. We’ve seen the useful idiots rattling off the union talking points.

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One Chicago teacher, Molly Meacham, took to poetry and shared her prose with the audience at a recent union rally.

Her poem, “How a Political Poem was Bullied Out of Me,” begins: “I had never been small until I heard how evil I am for being a teacher. With the lie levels rising in newspapers, emails, interviews, announcements the steady flood of anti-teacher propaganda dissolves dignity past patience until I am invisible and taste of salt.”

Wow.

“It feels wrong to hate politicians who I have never even met me but they made us feel miniscule – buzzing winged things, like gnats or mosquitoes for being teachers. It makes me hunger for Biblical retribution so I will be an insect in a plague of cicadas. We will be dressed as a river of blood, a torrent of chant and noise.

“There is no poem for this fight for watching the mild-mannered lose their voices from screaming chants, feet raw with marching, hands calloused for chalk will be rubbed with new blisters from holding signs. If we are faceless, let us be the drought, the blight, the salt in this fresh water city so our students will not be nameless, faceless scores in a city that hunts them for statistics. We will be living the politics, not writing a poem.”

Our words can’t do justice for how absurd – and disturbing – this presentation was, or the fact that the audience cheered wildly for it.

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“Bravo!” one attendee said.

Just who are these people, and should they really be teaching children?

How A Political Poem Was Bullied Out of Me from Molly Meacham on Vimeo.