I wanted to write this out and show it to my ELA teacher I give all the credit to the animators, writers and voice actors.
There's a Man in the Woods
There's a man in the woods.
What a spectacle.
Before the stories started this school was still respectable
My students used to skip down the hill to the honeysuckles, pluck a couple and collect their nectar til' they picked their fill.
Except one obnoxious kid, Sid.
Who just watched them eat the flowers while he seethed and scowled because he couldn't bear to share his treats throughout the recess hour.
I remember Sid saying, 'there's a man in the woods!'
That's how the rumor began.
Of course Sid spotted him first.
The poor kids, immersed in his speel about a serial killer who's gun barrel glints at peril
a visit to the nurse or worse, a hearse waiting just beyond the dale.
The children saw him everywhere.
'Look over there, that man had... Batman ears, w-we swear! and crazy yellow eyes! We saw something rusty! His shotgun? It must be! I saw a lady's severed thigh!'
Trust me.
Every word I heard was absurd.
Yet each day Sid would stray down way past the playground
Who else was brave enough to save us from the killer's next plot?
The rest of the lot would stop at the blacktop, sure that any close they were bound to be found deep in the woods, left to rot.
I pleaded for the kids to think, and learn to be mature but after a few more rumors doomed my attempts to prove the school was secure.
Their fear was undeterred.
And when the buses finally drove them home, the parents finally heard.
Everything just blew up.
I recieved a wall full of emails and calls wails and all from terrified families who'd heard word of the murderer and didn't like my lack of action at all.
What was I supposed to do? Comb the whole force?
Yeah, right! Would you? That means I didn't care?
That's not fair the stories you were weren't true!
Of course I would feel regret if there were a real threat and I ignored it!
And some poor kid got kidnapped while the kids were napping.
But you couldn't admit that your good little kid would formulate a fib so you ignored what I said.
Your little angels could never cook up such incredible creations? And overactive imagination maybe but my kid could never lie.
How dare I!
Accuse a child of being dishonest?
Just monstrous!
The parents were displeased and when the PTA took action they dismissed me from the classroom.
Like they knew what was best for their kids.
Do you know how difficult it is to get a job when a bitter mom slatters your rep with child neglect from the health set?
Now who's in control of your classes?
Single file lines!
Single file lines
Little vile swine, the killer by the pines.
Really? Are you blind while you find your spines?
Sid, a child the size to fill our minds with lies and the next thing you see is people treating me like I've committed crimes!
I was in my prime.
Those kids were lucky to have me! Do you see what you did?
But I can play along.
I can be good.
Do you hear that, Sid?
There's a man in the Woods.