The Miserable Ones

Public high schools these days.....
They are in dire need of an overhaul.
From the dress code....



...to the quality of the academics...




...to the equipment. There's never enough- rooms, desks, necessities...


They want to expand, build additions...


...and some days there isn't even enough cafeteria food for all the starving children...




So there is a continual clamor for more money: levies, bonds, taxes. It never ends.





   Do you hear the people sing
Lost in the valley of the night
It is the music of a people
Who are climbing to the light
For the wretched of the earth
There is a flame that never dies
Even the darkest night will end
And the sun will rise.