Education

by George Anderson

in my first posting
no one in yr 10 can read
no one gives a shit

a 12 yr old boy sleeps in a drainpipe
overnight

a student stoned falls backwards off his chair
cackling madly,
sprawled frozen on the ground

a teacher is strangled by his tie
by a football player
another’s hair set ablaze

the deputy principal purple faced
as I explain how students leaped
from the library’s second floor window.