An Ode to Two Bad Weeks

Can I just say
that whoever is responsible
for the eight straight days of disrupted routine
for my son and his self-contained class --
the four days of time-wasting standardized testing,
and the four days of being kicked out of their classroom
so other kids could use it for standardized testing --
should be the one to get
the lunch detentions
and the after-school detentions
and the lost privileges
and the reprimands
(and yes, the parental yelling, too,
when they come home wired
to within an inch of their lives).

Because, if this is a test
to see how much stress
these multiply disabled kids can take,
the answer is:
a lot less than this.