Remember E’s?
Or smiley faces and stickers?
Simple signs of approval
not A’s.
When Acceptable was okay
and Excellent was amazing?
Arts and crafts, science and math,
everything taught to the child
not to the grade.
Now we are obsessed with the A,
without the memory of E’s.
A, B, C, D…then F?
Whatever happened to E?
Was it lost with
our Energy, our Excitement,
our in-Experience?
Did they get rid of it to get rid of Us,
the Individual, the kid?
Changing our Efforts from Excitement
to Acceptance.
Engaging our stresses not our minds,
so simple to accomplish without E’s.
So I’ll shoot for an E,
a sticker or stamp
and say to A, ‘oh I didn’t expect you, hey’.