Our blog poet, SomeDam Poet, returns at last to his/her place of eminence, writing wonderful doggerel and great poetry for our pleasure and enlightenment.
This one was written in response to Betsy DeVos’s claim that some schools may need guns to protect students from grizzly bears, so it may be necessary to get rid of gun-free school zones:
“A nation at risk”
The number one problem in schools
Is grizzly-bears breaking the rules
Attacking the teachers
And hacking the bleachers
And leaving their grizzly bear stools
Diane Ravitch's blog 
They must be Russian bears since they are hacking the bleachers!
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But if they are Canadian bears they must be Hacking!
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SomeDam: do you do limericks? I can’t get past:
There once was a woman from Grand Rapids
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Who was quite vapid. . .
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To a Washington came calling. . .
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To rescue public schools afalling. . .
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All the while smirking and declining to be candid.
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Good thing SDP is around, eh!
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Stick to your day job and let SDP do the poetry thing. But I’m no better, actually worse, than you!
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Love it.
They “bear” witness to the “grzzsly” things going on with DeVos.
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SDP you continue to rock! Thanks again for imparting a much needed smile.
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I used this poem to introduce an article fromThink Progress on crazy Betsy’s grizzly remark
http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Betsy-DeVos-says-guns-in-s-in-Best_Web_OpEds-Betsy-Devos_Confirmation_Guns-In-Schools_Poet-170118-642.html#comment640475
I also posted several comments including this one”Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced he will vote against the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be the next secretary of the Department of Education.” and this comment from our frequent commented here at Oped.
Lloyd Lofthouse, https://lloydlofthouse.org former teacher and former Marine, whose blog “Crazy Normal” I follow, wrote this to me, and I hope he won’t be angry that I used it, because it is the absolute truth.
“DeVos is more than ignorant, she is an idiot, a fool. She doesn’t know what bullets can do. If teachers and administrators have firearms and they use them, what happens when they miss the target and those bullets go through walls and hit the very children they are protecting. And even if you hit your target, the shooter attacking the school, bullets can go through one person and hit another. The higher the caliber, the more objects the bullet will go through and high caliber firearms are usually the most popular.”
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Bravo, SDP! Here’s something else to enjoy (yes, we MUST keep our sense of humor, as well as keeping DeVos out!):
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Utah allows school personnel to conceal carry in schools. I know–it’s awful. This happened two years ago with a teacher concealed carrying. http://www.sltrib.com/news/1787604-155/montgomery-toilet-ferguson-district-utah-concealed
This one happened in Idaho, where they allow conceal carry in classrooms as well: http://idahostatejournal.com/news/local/isu-prof-with-concealed-weapons-permit-who-accidentally-shot-his/article_18228ab2-3383-11e4-af7e-001a4bcf887a.html
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Story on Utah teacher who discharged gun in school and hit toilet: “Asked about the nature of the incident on Wednesday, city prosecutor Tracy Cowdell agreed with a news reporter that it was ‘kind of funny.'”
Land of the free, home of the clueless.
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Wonderful. We’ll sure need you, SDP, the next four, long years!
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Goodness!
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