Here's something that I wrote a long time ago that I would like to serenade Harvard Magazine and a certain ignorant law professor with... In case it isn't painfully obvious, it's to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic.
BATTLE HYMN OF THE HOMESCHOOLER
Under the Department of Education
We’ve produced some hopeless dolts
But at least they are quite passive
And the bulk of them don’t vote.
“There must be accountability!
Now teach them to the test!”
And stupidity marches on…
CHORUS:
Glory, Glory education
Is a joke in this great nation.
Glory, glory education
While testing marches on.
We have hamstrung all the teachers
With our great assessment tools
We have killed their creativity
And generated fools
The kids are bored to tears
So that the brightest of them drool
Public education marches on.
CHORUS
If you live in a great district
Then your kids have got a prayer
If you’re poor or from the city
Well, the rich folks do not share
When there’s 40 children in a room
Then chaos reigns supreme
And testing marches on.
CHORUS
The No Child Left Behind Law
Makes sure no one gets ahead.
They will drill and kill the subjects
Till the kids wish they were dead.
We give lipservice to improving
But the game is rigged, you see,
And Bureaucracy marches on.
CHORUS
We tell kids that they must study
And that college is the goal
But when graduation comes
They’re in a financial black hole
And the jobs that they have worked for
Have been shipped out overseas
As propaganda marches on.
CHORUS
If you’d have your kids be thinkers
Then you need a better tool.
Pull them out of institutions,
Roll your sleeves up and homeschool.
Though they won’t have a diploma
Stamped and sealed by government
They will think for themselves!
Glory, glory education
Take a permanent vacation
Join the happy homeschool nation
And learning marches on.
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