Planting the Seeds of Knowledge, Inch by Inch

A Variation on "The Garden Song"

Inch by inch, row by row
Gonna make this V.A.M. score grow
All it takes is high stakes and Gates' dough
And the D.o.E's stern frown

Inch by inch, row by row
Someone drop cut scores just so
Someone pull them from below
Till the brain comes tumblin' round

Preppin' minds and readin' tomes
Kids are made of 6G phones
Feel the need to call a home
'Cause the time is close at hand

Brain for brain, fun and pain
Test erasures leave a stain
Throw my body down Pearson's drain
For the money from "the Man"

Pencil rows, right and wrong
Temper them with prayer and song
Moskowitz will say so long
She'll take your school fair and square

Old crow watchin' hungrily
From her perch in yonder tree
In my garden I'm as free
As that feathered thief up there

Inch by inch, row by row
Gonna make my V.A.M. score grow
All it takes is high stakes and Gates' dough
And the Governor's stern frown

Inch by inch, row by row
Someone drop cut scores just so
Someone pull them from below
Till the brain comes tumblin' round