Home Work

Are we our formal learning?

Our intellect but fixed?

Our ceiling a diploma?

Home education nixed?

Are women told to mind the things

Of house and home alone?

And men instructed to aim high

And academics hone?

Are ethnic segments channeled

Into schools with a blue collar?

While others are compelled to join

Dad’s Ivy Alma Mater?

The forces that would stifle minds

Are overcome with ease

And come at a clear bargain

Charged in late library fees