No Child Left Bereft

They worried first of Grandma’s plug,
How pulling it would cause her end.
They give health-care reform a shrug.
They're nuts, if truth, they just pretend.

So much for elders, now the kids
These whackos want to use as ploys
To foil Obama, though it rids
Our dialogue of all but noise.

In this case talk‘s a better word,
To students freshly back in school,
Of what undoubtedly they’ve heard:
Work hard, don’t quit, get smart. That’s cool.

And from the president, advice
Can signify for youths much more.
They like him, thus his words entice
Robust response, a close rapport.

Yet idiotic parents think
He’s trying to indoctrinate,
And radical agendas link
To academics. This they hate.

What’s next if kids can’t hear his talk
On school TVs across the land
When Mom and Dad say take a walk?
Will civic-mindedness expand?

The answer’s no, the kids become
As dumbed-down as their parents are.
To blinkered views they, too, succumb.
And narrow-visioned, don’t get far.