I’ve had a new school teacher
Now for a week or two.
She seems to be quite clever,
And knows her subject, too.
She’s pleasant and attractive,
As far as I can tell.
There’s just one trouble with her.
She doesn’t mind me well.
In fact, she has a notion,
Saved from a former day,
That things about the schoolroom
Should go the other way.
And so the one objection
That any one could find
Is insubordination.
I cannot make her mind.