Please Don’t Stop School

As a little child, I sat under my Sunday School table,
And I made faces at Ellen and Gary.
Yet, Mrs. Schaefer was teaching, and I was listening.
In the first grade, I was writing my alphabet, 
And learning phonemes and suffixes and prefixes;
I'd learn more in Middle School.
I took my algebra, had my history,
Had my science.
I'd put my head down, and listen.
I didn't do my work.
Turned in assignments late.
Didn't study for tests.
Got high Bs on most of them, because I listened.
Failed half my classes because I wouldn't do homework assignments. 
But, as a grown adult, it is about all I had in life, to give me any hope.
If you took that away, even, I'd have none.