Dictators

Some people have no funds to spare, for what these schools ask for,
It’s just a form of punishment to identify the poor,
We didn’t have a ‘uniform’, when I was but a lad,
It seems to me, ‘elitist’, and somehow rather sad.

Some petty – minded person, will issue a ‘dictat’,
And will order other children they must dress like, ‘this and that’,
I know some smart decorum must be observed by all,
But not the ‘Little Hitlers’, who cause a child’s downfall.

What difference education, if socks are just too small,
Or blouse just off the colour, does that matter at all?.
Why cause a child embarrassment, by sending them away?
When they attend for you to educate them on that day.

All you do, is teach a child the sting of ‘snobbery’,
All you do, is breed in them an insecurity,
All you do to mother, is steal from her small purse,
And as for education – You dictators make it worse!

Mick

( Copyright Michael Westwood 2016 )