SCHOOL

School, a big centre for you to learn
If you don’t go to school what money can you earn?
If you have nothing concerning work in your head,
There is a library of books that you haven’t read,
School consists of everything —
How to earn money, good calculating —
Speaking fluently — and if your parents haven’t taught you training at home
Then school is a place for you to learn.
Then if you don’t achieve any of this as life moves on,
Well then my friend, I’m sorry but your opportunity has just gone.
You cannot erase or do over the past so you must go to school.
Because for your 14 years of learning in school, all you did was play the fool.

By ARIELLE HADASSAH PATRICK
12-year-old student of Tunapuna Secondary School