This Sixth-Grader’s Poem On School Funding Will Break Your Heart

"We are taking away schools and building prisons in their place."

This Tweet is making the rounds today, purportedly a sixth-grader’s poem about lousy school funding in Philly. Wagner Middle School is in North Philly, in the West Oak Lane neighborhood.


And here’s an independent picture, just in case the Tweet above doesn’t work for some reason: