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Artist - John W. Rockwell | Songs (68)

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Genre: Ukulele
Credits: John Rockwell

Song: Public Education
Album: Solo Ukulele Stuff

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Lyrics:
Four years of college and I earned my first degree
I loved it so much that I somehow knew Id never leave
My public education
had a special kind of hold on me
And thats why I signed up to teach

In teacher re-education, I joined my new society
I learned my students should always get the top priority
And all the ills in education
Were the fault of government misappropriations
And parents were just pawns too dumb to know

Down the old production line
Go the shrinking shrink-wrapped teenaged minds
Marinating in the status quo

And the QC defect man
Grabs broken products with a steady hand
And tosses them aside in a pile that growsand growsand grows
[solo]
Meet that standard, tow the line
Tune in that corporate state of mind
Where numbers and calculations equal growth

Like workers in a factory,
We treat our students like machines,
Where thinking is replaced with stuff to knowto knowto know

In teacher school I learned that grades were a label so unkind
And once I understood that, I got my own grade for my time
We think that were fulfilling needs
When we really serve a bureaucracy
Maybe teachers are just pawns too dumb to know

We tell the students Dont be late!
And, Dont you want to graduate?
As if looming threats will somehow open minds

And if they want to have a voice
Or Holy Lordmake a choice!
Theyll mess up our neatly staged production line

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