Parable of the A Students
Parable of the A Students
There
was a group of students who were good in school. They did everything
their teacher told them, attended classed without fail, did homework to
the T, went on field trips to the various hot spots in town, even stayed
out late to make sure they learn all the subject matter at the spot.
When
the teacher told them to do bad things, they followed instructions to a
T. They especially liked to do the opposite when the teacher told them
good things. He told them this was called reverse psychology, so they
loved to practice reverse psychology. If he told them to love, they
hated. If he told them to appreciate life, they tried all in their power
to self-destruct. If he told them to strive to be successful, they
prayed to fail, or shoot themselves in the foot.
They
truly enjoyed turning positive into negative, and they mastered the
game of failure rather than success. The teacher couldn't pay them to
succeed. If he told them to practice safe sex or even to restrain from
sex for awhile, they did the opposite. They would have sex without a
condom and would get infected with various STDs, including HIV/AIDS. And
some of the girls who did the opposite of what the teacher said got
pregnant.
Again,
the teacher was using reverse psychology because he intended for them
to fail. He had his plans for them to be failures. He was only following
instructions from his boss so the youth would end up destroyed, and
especially the boys who were programmed for the department of
corrections so they could help the guards and other prison industry
workers live the good life, buy nice homes, cars, boats, go on ship
cruises, put their children through college. The teachers and other
workers prayed together at church that the children would be A students
in doing the opposite of what they taught them, and the children were
true to the game played on them. Yes, they were A students. They failed
at school, failed to discover their life mission, failed at having
positive relationships with their boyfriends and girlfriends, and later
their marriage partners, failed at raising their children. Yes, this
group of students were a failure, and yet they carried the teacher's
program out to a T. They got A's on their report cards.
--Marvin X
from The Wisdom of Plato Negro, parables/fables by Marvin X, Black Bird Press, Berkeley.
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