<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=434197" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dangerous Precedent</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Children are failing at an alarming rate, <br>In public schools.<br>They can neither read nor write.<br>Quote or recite, <br>Anything...<br>From approved and acceptable literature.<br>However, <br>They do excel and achieve high marks...<br>At rapping and the playing of video games.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This reality is not 'becoming' a threat.<br>This reality IS and has been a threat, <br>To anyone who can see...<br>What the future ahead is going to be.<br>And the defending of this IS and has been...<br>A sick reflection of one's addiction to delusion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For anyone to perceive themselves, <br>To be intelligent enough to say<br>Such freedoms to prevent, <br>The continued demoralizing decay<br>Should have such freedoms taken away<br>Is setting a dangerous precedent.<br>Has just learned what that term means.<br>And has decided using it to defend their ignorance, <br>Will gain them personal attention.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The 'dangerous precedent', <br>Has been in allowing the absence of respect and discipline<br>To infiltrate the minds of children who are raising children, <br>Believing the act of marketing sex and decadence<br>Is going to overnight produce a society of upstanding citizens.<br>While illiteracy becomes a prerequisite, <br>To obtaining a Master's Degree in Physics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The 'dangerous precedent' had already taken effect, <br>When the building of prisons began to become considered...<br>As rehabilitation centers at the taxpayers exorbitant expense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The 'dangerous precedent' began<br>When the flowing of crime hit the streets.<br>And anyone expressing an embittered reaction against this...<br>Was rumored to be 'negative' and disgruntled, <br>About the truth of a pretentiousness no one sought to face.<br>But today<br>People are blaming those in leadership positions, <br>For not being strong enough to protect their interests.<br>Or fight courageously to uphold their rights to entitlements.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yeah! <br>It's in the 'water'.<br>It 'has' to be!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=434197" data-title="Dangerous Precedent de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Children are failing at an alarming rate, In public schools. They can neither read nor write. Quote or recite, Anything... From approved and acceptable literature. However, They do excel and achieve high marks... At rapping and the playing of v..."></div> </div> </div>

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