Inside Total Turmoil
well, it’s closed
the school is closed
and will not reopen
another one dies,
so what
capitalism’s cost
risk in investment,
hoped-for profit
returned plus
much, much more
except currency
was learning and
has now been
spent
fortunes expended
for the price of
anticipation
were wrong
things misdirected
done? most likely—
but that is
nothing to do
with me or mine,
whose goodness
is now out of
pocket, too
I trust only from a
flattened place
learners will see
new direction:
fair winds, then, all
whose needs must
journey
cool water on
another side, all
who thirst
(the school where I taught has closed—anyone knowing of a job for a used English teacher or
religious educator, well, maybe you could please let me know)
clcouch123 
September 9, 2016 at 3:36 am
oh dear brother. I am so sorry to hear this. your words are so raw, so real and they hit my heart hard. I hope He whom you offered your lovely Psalms will open new and better door for a wise and good good man like you. ❤ sending some love and prayers from the Philippines. ❤
September 9, 2016 at 12:39 pm
Prayers from the Philippines are best. Thank you, sister!
September 14, 2016 at 9:42 pm
This makes me sad Christopher. I’m sorry it shut down. Was it a religious school? My Dad was principal of Lutheran highschool in Edmonton. He retired from the position, but a couple years later it shut down too. Had been around for ninty some years. I’m sorry about your school and hope you can find another one to work at when you’re well.
September 15, 2016 at 8:52 pm
Thank you, Mandi. The school wasn’t a religious school, though I know sometimes religious schools shut down. I’m sorry to hear about the school where your father worked. This was a school network overseen by a (for-profit) corporation. It seems the corporation part engaged in iffy practices in order to receive federal funding on behalf of students. Now that money can’t be found. The Education Department cut off that funding source, which caused the company to close the school. It is sad and, yes, I’m sad. Our campus was a smaller program. I liked my learners and was happy to watch them grow. I enjoyed my colleagues and my supervisor. I’ll keep in touch with a few. I guess we all need new places.
September 15, 2016 at 9:54 pm
Yes that’s sad. My Dad’s old school wasn’t run by a business. They were independant, the University board on the same campus, stepped away from the school when I was in grade 10. The school stayed the same and had a parent/alumni run board. But they didn’t think ahead and get half land title to the building where so many people donated so their could be a new high school building. It went to court, the high school didnt get much. Changed location, and the fact that the board was trying to run the school like a business, was what ended the school. Dad wasn’t there at this point. It kind of parallels with your school a bit, when the school can’t be run like a business, it closes. Sorry it closed, its always an upsetting thing.