“You can’t make us speak our minds about Thomas Jefferson, Newton, or Shakespeare, but silence us when we have something to say about the system.”
Ashé is a senior at Democracy Prep Charter High School. She plans to attend Brandeis University in the fall.
Wake up everyone this is a PSA
Children are now an endangered species
I repeat children are now an endangered species
Their souls are being hunted
Their brains are being poached for the sake of discipline
Their individually is being sold on the Internet for short lived memes and vines
They are being squeezed into tiny cages
I mean classrooms
To learn the ways of the white patriarchal world
These children are given send outs and detentions that leaves scars on their mouths
Limiting their freedom of speech
But their needs and desires are being locked in the principal's office where it is left to rot.
New York
America
You need to save the children
This system is treating these innocent human beings like animals
Like they don't have a brain
Like they don't know how to think for themselves
Like they are not a they but an it
A thing that the government can just inject new testing strategies or procedures into
They
The children are caged birds trying to sing
Why don't you let them sing America?
Why don't we
The children have a say in our education?
You can't make us speak our minds about Thomas Jefferson, Newton, or Shakespeare
But silence us when we have something to say about the system
You can't expect individuality in projects
But shut down a majority of the art clubs in our schools.
So this is my message to whom it should concern
Teach what you preach
Give us the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Give us a voice
Give us freedom
And finally destroy the ideals of the American dream
Because it is about time we made it a reality.