Scott Simpson · Poetry

We Don’t Call It Free Time

Use For Kindling · source pages 56, 57

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Source page 56

They rush through the worksheet

to get to what we call “free time”—

but they are working harder than ever.

Building, planning, making.

As if this is the real learning—

not the one we grade.

Source page 57

And maybe it is. Maybe we name it wrong

because we’re afraid of joy in the syllabus.