Crazy Ideas| A WeekEndFreeWrite
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This is my entry to #WeekendFreewrite organized by @mariannewest. Prompts in bold italics. I limited the development of the story to the five minutes per prompt.
Crazy Ideas
"Crazy ideas," she murmured under her breath. But she kept on nodding and smiling..
She was being extremely tolerant with the School District Supervisor; not because she was afraid of losing her job, but because she was afraid she might actually kill that woman if she expressed her honest opinion and objections.
She would have to stop her before she said one more word about the teacher’s duty with her students and with the “father land”; she would have to ask her to shut the fuck up or else explain how in the hell a teacher is supposed to teach without resources, sick, and with an empty stomach. The woman would probably raise her voice and invoke the constitutional right of the children to a free and quality education, to which she would have to rub in the supervisor’s face the multiple human and constitutional rights her government had ripped from children and continued violating. After that, she would just have to find a hard object to smash the supervisor’s head and that would be the end of things.
-"…and that’s why we need your upmost effort to have our children and their parents actively participating of these cultural activities. Do you understand, dear teachers?"
[end of five minutes]
His socks were wet and rubbing, but he couldn't stop..
He was supposed to dance along the sewage inundated streets, smile for the pictures that the supervisor of the School District would upload to the Ministry’s website (after careful editions and photo-shopping), and cheer every time someone asked “where are the students of Zamora’s Elementary?”.
Never mind his shoes had been collecting holes all year long and his parents had been unable to get him new ones, or even have these ones repaired. He had even been told that he could wear his sleepers to school or even come barefoot if need be. His education was the most important thing and no demands would be put on him other than his active participation in the building of a new system where material possessions would not determine whether or not he could participate and enjoy his citizen rights.
It did not matter either that he had not eaten all morning or that the school’s cafeteria was no longer offering breakfast or anything in the form of food. Even the kids knew about the corruption concerning the food that was meant for them and that was usually smuggled out of school by the principal or some other school employee.
He could not care less for his constitutional right to “free and quality education”; if this was what that meant, he’d rather starve at home.
[end of five minutes]
a headache; that’s all they got with that stupid parade to show the world everybody was happily attending the revolutionary school that created the new man and the new woman. A headache was the first thing the little kid felt after walking 13 blocks with his socks soaked in pestilent waters and his empty stomach sending crazy signals to his brain. A headache was what the teacher felt when she saw the kid faint and fall to the ground. Then, he heard the Supervisor calling, “where are the parents of this kid? The teacher? You have to be more responsible and proactive, people, come on!"
And that’s when she lost it. She knew it was a crazy idea, but it was not as crazy as following fatally humiliating instruction to the letter. Screw her job; screw her life. If this was what was needed to prevent the next kid from falling, then so be it.
She crabbed a big rock from a broken sidewalk and approached the Supervisor coldly and decidedly.
[end of five minutes]
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Hi @hlezama. I liked your story of courage and inspiration. And he got exactly what he deserved, a rock upside his head. Little care for the children and their plight. You can push someone only so far before they forget about what's right and proper. Especially if they or children or hurting. How brave to stand up for the children in a corrupted environment.
Thanks for sharing this story. I know a lot of elements to it are true in so many countries.
Thanks for stopping by. I think that extreme situations call for extreme measures. Most government officials abuse their power and become corrupt and arrogant because they know "the people" will never go that extreme. Once in a while, though someone loses it and they get what they deserve.
You are correct. In the end, they certainly do get what they deserve. It might take a long time, and they do many wrong, but you reap what you sow. I'm a firm believer of that @hlezama. I can't stand abusers of any kind, especially to children and the elderly. They are the most vulnerable.
Come ON @hlezama! Are you sure the 5 minutes were really up?? I think you had another minute left. :-( I was waiting for the KAPOW! BANG! CRACK!! at the end.. hehe.
Great work putting it all together.. Really really moving too.
LOL! Sometimes I have to stop myself before I let my anger get the best of me and write stories that may be too outrageous. There is so much crap going on around here! All kinds of injustices, crimes, corruption, negligence, impunity, depravity. Every person you talk to brings new and horrendous stories that you wish you had not heard, but you become some sort of second-hand eye witness and changed for good.
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I really don't know what to say. Though this is just your imagination, but I know this is inspited by reality. Sad reality. 😢
Corruption really is bad for everyone, especially for the less fortunate. They are the most affected.
What a wonderful world would it be without corruption, right? ❤
Yes. It would be wonderful, and easy when you think about it. The most corrupt, the ones that hurt the most, are usually those who do not need to corrupt themselves and others; they are usually the ones who already have plenty, only they want more.
Exactly! Greedy people! 😭
Really great writing in all three of these works arising from your five minute sessions. I enjoyed reading them!
Thanks, @free-reign
Sounds so close to home with same problems!
Very well conveyed over, a story which actually isn't a story, it is what is happening, in far too many places around the world.
Thanks, @joanstewart. Unfortunatelly, it is.
This is sad reality which also happens in our country. Last instance involves donations to those affected by the recent volcanic eruption. Withheld and hidden away by corrupt local officials. Sad reality.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your experience. Those are the worst cases. Not even amid tragedy does human greed stops.
Hola mi amigo, se perfectamente de lo que hablas, es lamentable por lo que estamos pasando, espero que pronto haya un cambio en nuestros hermoso pais Venezuela.
Ojala! Ya cuesta ver lo que queda de hermoso. En estos días caminaba por la playa san luis en Cumaná y como si la contaminación de la playa no fuera suficente, casi todas las casas de esa orilla de playa, que hasta hace poco eran posadas, balnearios, bares, sitios vacacionales, son ahora ruinas
These are some pretty powerful stories, and they're ones that definitely need to be told. Teaching children is a difficult thing to do in the best of circumstances, and it takes a very special person to want to do it knowing that they will be paid little and have a lot of opposition. It's baffling.
You are right. The saddest thing is to see teachers fall into a hole from where they can't even see their own transformative and subversive power.
Our teachers here keep protesting "for salary improvements"; they lost track of the real issue. Even if they started getting a thousand $ a month (which is nothing for world standards, but a big deal for latin american standards) they would still living hell dealing with all kinds of limitations and impositions.