A few years ago (four to be exact) when I was in fourth grade I had to take a song to school for my music lass that explained me. I brought Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 and got sent to the principle's office for it! It's not like I haven't been there before but I was really ticked off about that time because I didn't do anything! All I did was bring a song that I loved to my music class that happened to say stuff like "Hey, Teacher, Leave those kids alone" What's wrong with that? Do you think that's right for schools to do that?
definatley not. ur school sounds wank. our music teachers were sound and had posters of floyd & hendrix on the walls
My music teacher showed stuff like video's of performances of Rage against the machine - Killing in the name of and discuss it etc.. Fun classes
That is funny, as in high school back in 1981, for our English class, we spent 2 weeks disecting The Wall and every song. Teacher brought in print outs of all lyrics and we also watched the movie and then spent 2 weeks trying to decipher what it all meant. Yeah, I had a cool English teacher.
Perhaps a reason for the 'No child left behind' thing, I have no idea, just that scary is if I survive another decade I want the children now to be able to make decisions for me as our children are our future, teach them well and let them see the light, let them da da da the bueaty they.... ok that was from back when whit could still sing. But really I don't think teens need to apply the song literally to there education.
Although I won't hide the fact that I DO NOT dig The Wall at all, but I believe it's OBNOXIOUS for any educator/school to do anything anywhere close to that....if that happened in my day, we (the students) would have literally overthrown the entire school and headmaster.....ahhh, how negatively times change!!
Hehe, I also remember I played songs like Am I evil and Revelations in my english class when I got the chance. Our teacher started a game that was about the lyrics of a song. We had the lyrics but there were some words missing and we had to listen which words and what it meant. Mind you, this was a dutch school! (and christian)