LYRIC: The Poverty of Low Expectations (June 2025)

An education is a battle

Fought each day against our schools

In the gaps between the classrooms

In the gaps between the rules

And what is learned cannot be tested

At your isolated desks

In coercive competition

In examination death

The real assessment comes from living

Yes living lives much better than

The lives they had timetabled for you

Yes living lives against the plan