A Modest-ish Proposal

Jherine
6 min readApr 27, 2023

Enrollment in educational preparation programs is down and student apathy is up. We are at the precipice of an educational reformation; thus I have spent many minutes constructing the proposal which I will share with you now.

We will begin by eating the books.

The hearty tomes — Shakespeare, Milton, Homer — will be ground into fine pastes which will then be scooped into troughs and fed to the kindergarteners.

Photo by Kristin Brown on Unsplash

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Jherine

Jherine is a writer existing in the south. She is currently working on a collection of poetry that she hopes someone will read. doogonotpu.wordpress.com