16 mm Movies

One summer I taught with a guy fixated on flicks
I mean those 16mm films teachers used
to get away from textbooks

He said that was one way to motivate students
to pay attention to teachers doing their thing
at the green slate chalkboard

Show the movie in a darkened classroom
shades down to shut out summer sunlight
and they would learn

I guess they did learn and so did I; at summer's end
they were all caught up on naptime
and I was bored out of my mind!

Beware the pedagogue with a new trick
up his wrinkled sleeve!

poem by Michael Pruchnicki
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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