Lean on Me
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put both your hands
above your heads.

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Raise your hands!
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Put them up!
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You people represent
the 70% of our students

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who just failed
the practice exam.

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70%!
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But that is not
their failure.

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I don't blame them.
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The failure is yours.
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That's right, yours.
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How many hours do you spend
preparing your lesson plans?

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How often do you
stay after school

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to give those children-
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the ones
you know need it-

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the extra help
that they require?

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Keep your hands up.
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Now you're getting a hint
of the hopelessness and shame

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that makes those
failing students

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throw up their hands
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at the thought
of facing a world

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for which you have not
prepared them.

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You're getting an inkling
of the despair they feel

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when left to the mercy
of the streets.

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Keep your hands up high.
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Look around
at yourselves.

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Turn and look
at yourselves!

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Because you are failing
to educate them,

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this is the posture
our students will wind up in,

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only they'll be staring
down the barrel of a gun!

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Ooh, yeah, yeah
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ahh ha ha
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if a man is born
in luxury

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it proves to me
through history

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he is somebody

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