>>18354538"The Eerie Canal" song isn't something you learned in school, it was just a popular folk/childrens song that happened to be popular when Boomers were growing up. Hell, it was a popular folk/childrens song when I was growing up
>>18354541When and where did you grow up? Some of the songs I was learning during elementary (2009-2015) included "Sarah Pucket Pooped In a Bucket", "Avocado", and various Minecraft parodies of pop songs
>>18354570I'm a late millennial>and various Minecraft parodies of pop songsFuck that's honestly depressing. I'm honestly glad the Department of Education got defunded, they failed your generation hard.
>>18354576Why is the internet populated mostly by late millennials but not many early millennials like me?
>>18354576I agree.My school made me sing "You're A Grand Old Flag" after doing the Pledge of Allegiance, but only during kindergarten. Don't know if they stopped because I graduated kindergarten or because of wokism.Forget the exact circumstances but around 1st grade I think, we had a patriotic sing-along where we had to learn several patriotic songs, e.g. the national anthem, America the Beautiful, My Country, and God Bless the USA. Forgot whether we had to memorize them or if we had the lyrics.My school also had this Civil War event for the older grades with this one actor dressed as Abraham Lincoln I occasionally saw in the hallways, but it seems to have been cancelled by the time I got old enough.I also know my school made 5th graders read "A Year Down Yonder" because they made posters about it viewable in the hallways, but by the time I got to 5th grade I had to read shit by Jerry Spinelli in addition or instead. They also had a book club where the first book of Warriors was an option, and I had a brief Warriors phase lmao. TL;DR cat Sparta.My school used to do these field trips to a local geological museum that I looked forward to in 4th or 5th grade (I forget), but it was gone by the time I was old enough.Even back then I was noticing. It must be worse nowadays though. Maybe I should move out to middle America and homeschool my children.The problem is I'm 2nd generation Chinese American. Which ruins my dating hopes, let alone moving out and family planning.
>>18354592I remember my school growing up had a lot of patriotic songs, hell, for one year we even put on an entire school play filled with patriotic songs where the premise was someone traveling the country to find a state to make their home in with wacky shenanigans happening along the way. We pretty much continued this up until Middle School but I don't think it stopped because of wokism or anything like that, but rather just because Middle School was more about preparing you for High School than it was about singing silly folk songs and putting on school plays that weren't just school band performances
OOP also described Daniel Boone, Buffalo Bill Cody, Davy Crockett, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Grandma Moses, Nathan Hale, and Casimir Pulaski
I’m old as dirt and we did a lot of memorization and recitation, like the witches cauldron spell from Macbeth and other poetry. It was Louisiana so we learned lots of local history which as an autismo I loved, and at one point we had to learn all 64 parishes (counties) in the state on a map. I haven’t lived there in decades and can still name a lot of them.
>>18354823My New Jersey public school education was not very memorization-heavy. Like, it'd be expected to memorize scientific or mathematical equations (e.g. quadratic formula, classical mechanics equations), but NOT what years both world wars lasted between or what the capital of Wyoming was. As an autist, English and social studies were my absolute worst domains because I kept breaking down whenever I had to write extended responses.In history class we had "Document-Based Questions", which went something like "here's a painting of Washington crossing the Delaware, here's an excerpt from Washington's diary, here's a map of Pennsylvania during the 1770s, now write an essay from Washington's point of view convincing his men not to give up during the winter in Valley Forge." If considering only multiple choice questions, history tests generally involved stuff like "which one of these factors did NOT affect Lincoln's decision to suspend habeas corpus", or "what word best describes the role of the executive branch in the US federal government".My parents are both actually from mainland China, and they told me a lot of their history classes went like "was the Xinhai Rebellion good or bad" or "what was Soong Ching-ling's role in the founding of Modern China" and there was only one standard correct answer even though those would obviously be open-ended questions in an American public school curriculum.Back to the homeschooling shit, wonder if I could model the way I run things on the way China does it. Though it's likely China's approach itself could've evolved spectacularly from the 1970s.
>>18354570Are kids’ song parodies still a thing? My kid learned the “Barney gave me HIV” lyrics at a young age but I think it’s a dying culture. I was teaching American folk songs at a school and for grandparents day I asked our guests if anyone knew the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” parody “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school…” and they all laughed. At one time folklorists were amazed at how quickly kids playground parody songs went viral and it wasn’t Mad magazine or cartoons or whatever.
>>18354833As for English class, my school might've been fairly based, maybe? Like we certainly learned phonics during kindergarten, like sounding out the word "rat" as "ruh, aehh, tuh" and even making us write it as "răt" to denote a short vowel.In 1st grade, maybe even kindergarten, I was taught prefixes/suffixes, like I had to sort words on whether they began with "un-", "re-", "dis-", or "mis-". We routinely got pulled into small groups for read alouds with the teacher (or an English specialist who popped into different classrooms), and one funny thing I remember is them having something called "coaching or time" for not being able to read a word: either ask the teacher to help you (I remember not knowing how to pronounce "slim" and the teacher was like "imagine 'slime' but take away the silent e"), or wait it out. Then I abused the hell out of "coaching" and the teacher got pissed lol.Then in like 2/3rd grade I learned about "GUM" (grammar, usage, and mechanics), and the teacher even gloated about how we got to learn that early when in most schools they didn't even cover that until 7th grade. Basically one packet gradually worked on over a semester or two teaching stuff like comma usage, the difference between "its" and "it's", and how to use different forms of "be". I remember being so mindblown over how "am" and "was" were all forms of "be".There was one GUM homework assignment which I could totally imagine teacher unions calling racist now lol. "Here are 12 idioms featuring body parts, fill in the blank based on the word bank, also one of the words is used twice lol". E.g. "_____ in the clouds" and you'd select "head". And I remember seeing "Achille's _____" and going "wtf"; even my mom couldn't help me on that one, so she let me Google it despite ordinarily being strict about me using electronics without her permission.Does my Chinese mom not knowing shit about Greco-Roman mythology make me a filthy brown? Chinese idioms might make up for it lol.
>>18354836No Zoomer ever read MAD I'm pretty sure. They prob first heard about it in a retrospective nostalgia context.The sole anti-Barney rhyme I grew up with went:>ABCDEFG>Barney is my enemy>Stick a rifle up his nose>Pull the trigger, watch him blow>1 shot 2 shot 3 shot 4>No more purple dinosaur(to "The ABC Song")I also read about "Barney = 666" but online. Think the source might've even been Wikipedia (along with "Lavender Town Syndrome"), but mentions of those are gone now.I read a Prelutsky or Silverstein parody of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" about school being dismissed early in print, but we weren't singing it at recess or anything. In fact, I didn't even know what tune they were referring to without looking it up online.I first heard of the "cheese touch" in kindergarten and only later learned it came from Diary of a Wimpy Kid. There was also a "holy cow touch" that you defended against by holding up the index and pinky fingers in a "rock" gesture. There was even a "baby carrot touch"; dk if there even was a way to guard against it.There was also this:>"hey, anon">"what?">"5 MINUTES GET RID OF IT!"Apparently some 6 year olds thought "what" sounded like a bad word, and wanted you to not talk for 5 minutes as punishment for saying it.
>>18354843If you have a cool boomer male relative or friend, see if they remember any of this lore. There was a vast body of girl lore as well, jump rope rhymes and funny songs, but boys leaned into the violent and scatological, stuff that would get you locked up today.>Mine eyes have seen the glory of the >burning of the school>We have tortured every teacher, we >have broken every ruie>At three o clock this afternoon we’ll >shoot the principal >His teeth are marching on>Glory glory hallelujah >Teacher hit me with a ruler>Shot her in the door with a loaded .44>And she ain’t coming back no more
>>18354538Basic life skills: shop class (carpentry, metal working, welding, machining, and auto repair), home economics (cooking, gardening, sewing, balancing check books, basic time management skills, elocution) those kinds of things.
>>18354874>home economics (cooking, gardening, sewing
>>18354874Shop class is very much still a thing, welding and wood shop specifically is still regularly taught in most high schools
>>18354875No its from when they literally understood the value of gender roles which is why they can't have those things anymore, girls get hurt too much in shop class and boys get too bored in home economics.
>>18354877In private schools and specialized magnet schools, sure, but not the average public school and not "most" high schools.
>>18354880Yes, it very much is still a thing in public schools, you contrived, cynical retard.
>>18354885Yes the public magnet schools that specialized in trades, but most general education high schools don't actually have shop class, they have some kind of technical training where they learn about a wide variety of skills and practices in the theory, but don't actually have the heavy machinery and work supplies for specific actual hands on learning which is what shop class actually is, not just the theory, but the hands on application of it.
>>18354891>but most general education high schools don't actually have shop classYes they do, the shop teacher for the local high school literally shops at my local hardware store, I see him there all the time. You're not making any points
>>18354894I didn't say 0 high schools had shop classes, I said most high schools don't have them, your local high school is not representative of the vast majority, he is probably at the hardware store because that is where the machines actually are, so he teaches random people (some maybe students he invited to learn on their own time possibly for extra credit) at the hardware store classes instead of at his high school.But feel free to give a link to a high school that has pictures of its shop classes that actually has heavy machinery to allow the students to do hands on woodworking and metallurgy even though it still won't prove most high schools have shop classes, but will at least prove you aren't straight up lying.
>>18354920>your local high school is not representative of the vast majorityI would hardly say it's exceptional, it's the same school I went to growing up>he is probably at the hardware store because that is where the machines actually areNo, we had plenty of woodworking and welding equipment>But feel free to give a link to a high school that has pictures of its shop classesYeah so I don't think I'll be scouring random high school websites for photos of their classrooms Be honest man, how high are you on the spectrum? Verbal? Nonverbal? Aspergers?
>>18354923>I would hardly say it's exceptional,I wouldn't really say being in the 30% or so of high schools that actually have heavy machinery is "exceptional" either, they just aren't like the majority of high schools.>No, we had plenty of woodworking and welding equipmentOk, but most high schools don't have that type of equipment.>Yeah so I don't think I'llOk, but I do think I'll be accepting your concession since you clearly can't even prove your local public high school has heavy machinery, let alone the majority of public high schools.
>>18354894I can see that they don't teach things like statistics at your school though.
>>18354932Since you didn't answer my question I'm just going to pin you under "nonverbal" >>18354934I see your school didn't teach things like Proof by Example fallacies, retard.
>>18354939Or, since I am clearly using verbiage more advanced than your own, you could just pin it under retarded rhetorical questions losers need to ask after completely failing to make their rational case and becoming exceedingly desperate for someone else to scapegoat for their own impotence and incompetence.
>>18354864Most of the old people / boomers I know are Asians. So while I do get some cool stories, they're not quite what you're looking for.>my aunt got drunk off of rice wine in a dessert>my mom ate roadkill>my mom ate silkworms>my great grandma had my grandma when she was 17 (allow me to meet my great grandma while she was alive; iirc they shared a bedroom)>one of my distant nth cousins nth removed (who the fuck came up with that terminology) had 17 children>forget whether it was my grandpa or my great grandpa, but one of them walked across an entire city as part of military drillsA lot of nursery rhymes they passed down to me are about the Chinese Communist Party or People's Liberation Army. Boooooooooooo.
>>18354939So in you mind, it makes your claim more factual since you are using a proof by example fallacy to make your point instead of just being ignorant of basic statistics?
>>18354951I don't think typing on a computer is the same as talking, and you definitely have autism, you are a grade A example of how most people on the spectrum form arguments>"There is no such thing as this anymore!">"Yes there is">"nuh uh you're the exception that doesn't count!"Nothing but autistic, overly general nonesense from you tards, now get back to your special ed classes, aspie.
>>18354877My high school and/or middle school has/had woodworking. Idrk the details. I never had to take "home economics" but I did have to take "personal finance". There was ordinarily a baby doll exercise in 11th grade for health class but it got replaced with online research about baby expenses due to COVID.>>18354880This was a really "good" public school, not a magnet/private school.>>18354951My autism is high functioning but they still made me have an aide and dragged me to behavioral therapy. I fucking hated it and just wanted to be normal. I feel like if they had just dropped everything and let me be normal, I wouldn't have become the severely bitter, depressed, and helpless man I am today.Fuck the mental health industry. It's literally an industry. And one in cahoots with education systems. Like it's literally the pussification of society, but tailored specifically to me. Even my classmates weren't groomed this hard into cuckoldry. It's fucking retarded.
>>18354958>"There is no such thing as this anymore!"Nobody said that, bad faith retard, there is a major difference between you saying shop class is "in most high schools" and someone else saying shop class is in 0 high schools, same way that some kids might still know that eerie canal song, but it doesn't represent the majority of kids.>>"nuh uh you're the exception that doesn't count!"I accept your concession, your local totally real high school that you can't name or show their shop class is just an exception and doesn't actually represent "most" high schools.>autisticI don't really care what label you use to save face by trying to attach to people who have clearly outclassed you and proven you wrong.
>>18354962Wait until you find out that education institutions are just repurposed prison institutions for the social slave class known as the "minor".
>>18354843>>ABCDEFG>>Barney is my enemy>>Stick a rifle up his nose>>Pull the trigger, watch him blow>>1 shot 2 shot 3 shot 4>>No more purple dinosaur>(to "The ABC Song")Kek. For us it was:>I hate you>You hate me>Let's hang Barney from a tree>With a punch in the nuts, and a shotgun to the head>Now that purple fuck is deadTo the Barney "I love you" song.>>18354864This is fucking hilarious. I would have loved singing this in school, but yeah we would've gotten in massive trouble if the teachers overheard.
>>18354843>>18354864>>18355018Off the top of my head I can remember>"I love you, you love me, let's get together and kill Barney"and"I pledge of allegiance to the flag, Michael Jackson is a fag"
>>18354864>>18355022samefag here>>Mine eyes have seen the glory of the >burning of the schoolI also distinctly remember this one, the lyrics live in my head rent free>My eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school>We have tortured every teacher, we have broken every rule>We are headed to the office to hang the Principle>The school is marching on!
>>18355022Literally how I learned about Michael Jackson was a poster a schoolmate made and had exhibited on a bulletin board outside our music room.
>>18355031Oh also to add:>Happy birthday to me>I'm 103>???>I want my mommy>My mommy's at work>She fired a jerk (?)>And in the jerk's place (?)>She hired a monkey>The monkey was dead>I chopped off his head>The rest of his body>Is under my bed(to "Happy Birthday")There was an alt version of the 3rd stanza beginning "My father was dead" but idk. Same source for both versions (and it started with a girl lol).There was also "Happy Birthday" sung to the tune of the Hallelujah Chorus by Handel.
>>18355039Kek. Kids' songs were so based.
>>18355042There was also:>When you're sitting on your tush and you feel something squoosh: diarrhea!This one must've come afterwards since I learned it from my lil brother, but:>Yo, yo, my name is Joe!>My butt is bigger than Mexico!>(And that's the end of the show!)My bro also taught me:>I farted! It tickles!>The hot girls giggle!>And I do it again!
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>>18354970this autistic little bro watches way too much young Sheldon frfr
>>18355136this retarded portly fella concedes way too many points frfr
>>18354538My Canadian grandad mentioned that they used to still learn about medieval England and shit in their history classes because when the British Empire was still a thing there was still a sense of Canada being a bastion of this Britannic civilization. This obviously has been discarded post-WWII as a greater sense of independent Canadian nationalism has arisen alongside with the subsquent negative perception of British Imperialism and the rise of Multiculturalism in Canada
Do any schools still have dodgeball, or killball as we called it? I was a geeky spaz but could dodge and catch ok, and the greatest athletic memory of my life is in 7th grade where I was the last one left on my team, facing a couple of bully jocks, and I caught one ball, blocked the throw, then hit the kid in the face for the win. It was like a scene from the movie Dodgeball, real character building social Darwinist stuff.
>>18355226Yes for when I was in elementary school, as the OP. Likely so since I've worked at a summer camp as an adult and they still played it.
>>18354538For more historic american folk songs, see the opening of "How The West Was Won" (1962?)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXPFuXfAmbIThe erie canal was an important milestone in the early history of the US. It had everything that made for a truly american story including:> one man pushing the project forward, in spite of everyone telling him he was crazy> the massive economic boom which followed> the creation of a point of intersection (at buffalo) where most people 'heading west' travelled throughBesides, who doesn't like mule named Sal?
the holocaust, slavery, colonialism, the holocaust, genocide, the oppression of black folx, assigned at birth female folx, lgbtq folx, transfolx and jews in the holocaust is more important than how wypipo built america, which was of course 100% due to black people picking cotton in the south not white industry and ingenuity, wypipo done did stoled all the factories and technology and roads and canals from the native americans and black people
>>18354592>The problem is I'm 2nd generation Chinese American. Which ruins my dating hopesNo, your shitty attitude ruins your dating hopes. Get in shape, cultivate interests and hobbies, develop social skills, treat women with erotic interest but also genuine respect. Be proud of your culture(s). China and America both have a lot to be proud of. Women worth dating don't give a shit that you're asian.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Yd8g1kV3Y
American folk music in schools has an interesting history, starting as a leftist Popular Front thing back when the left embraced Americana. Pete Seeger was influential in schools and summer camps and his stepmother Ruth Crawford Seeger transcribed and anthologies volumes of folk songs. This is what boomer kids grew up with, singing about cowboys and John Henry and the Erie Canal, and it was broadened with world music over time. I guess glorifying the American past is seen as reactionary now and along with cuts to music education I can’t imagine much of that stuff gets sung any more apart from “This Land is Your Land”.
>>18355733That's because the nuleft follows in lockstep with globalized corpo ideology which is against nationhood because it reduces profits.
>>18355733The only context in which I've ever heard "This Land Is Your Land" was one of those Millennial-coded kid book read-aloud DVDs / VHSes. It wasn't even in that one patriotic sing-along.Looked it up and it was actually not the same DVD, but one of them had a song with an animated movie about a foolish frog who drank so much water it exploded. Turns out the singer was Pete Seeger, who's as leftist as can be.Honestly if the Dems dropped trans stuff, and tap more into a Pete Seeger aesthetic, even if they still hold on to goals like improving black people's lives, they could legit win US elections and stuff. You can do all that without saying men should enter women's swim lockers and nude spas.
>>18355710No the whole game is literally rigged against Asians. No one wants to date an Asian. Asians make the worst boyfriends except to other Asians. If I were the only Asian in Buttfuckville, Oklahoma, I'd probably get maybe not literally lynched like in the 1800s, but life would suck. It's much better if you're a hot girl so you can Eileengumax, but I'm tragically not.
>>18354836It still is to some extent. I remember learning a parody of the My Little Pony theme when I was in elementary school in the 2010s.
>>18356429Was along the lines of:>My little pony>So skinny and boney>Farted on purpose >And blew up the circus
>>18355043When you're sliding into first and you feel a juicy burstDiarrhea, diarrhea When you're sliding into second and it feels like you're nekkidDiarrhea, diarrheaDon't remember third and home. On top of Old Smokeyyyyy all covered with blooooood. I shot my poor teacherrrrr with a 44 stuuddddd. I hate you, you hate me, let's gsng up and kill Barney. With a knife in his back and a bullet in his head, let's tell our friends that Barney's dead. Yeah the kid word of mouth meme song parodies ruled
>>18356532>Diarrhea, diarrhea I remember that one, I remember it having an extra line though>When you're driving in a Chevy and you're feeling kinda heavy, diarrhea
>>18356289Just lift and act chill.
A bit late seasonally butJingle bells, batman smells, Robin laid an egg, Batmobile lost a wheel and Joker took balletRandolph the peg leg cowboy, had a very shiny gun. And if you ever saw it, you would drop your pants and run. All of the other cowboys... Someone out there has to know the rest of it, I'm trying to remember
>>18356554A few ones I made up ~2015>Rudolph went into a drugstore>Found a pack of heroin>Snorted all the white powder>It went up into his brain...>(etc.)That was during DARE lolAlso>The pee glows yellow on the penis tonight>Not a droplet to be seen>A kingdom of constipation>And it looks like I'm the poop>The gut is howling>And these farts swirling inside>Couldn't keep it in>Heaven knows I triedThe chorus was still "Let it go""I'm free" became "I'm 3"There was also one my busmates used a lot to torment me>John John the leprechaun>Went to school with no clothes on>John John the leprechaun>Went to school with no clothes on>John John the leprechaun>Went to school with no clothes on>John John the leprechaun>Went to school and DIED!Poor me. They eventually replaced John with my name so it was like "Anon Anon the leprechaun". Which is funny because "Anon" would fit the rhyme but my real name wouldn't!
>>18356562The leprechaun one was to the tune of "Hi Ho the Rattlin Bog" but just the first phrase
Yankee Doodle went to town, riding on a rocket, stick a finger in his butt and called it Hershey's chocolate All of the above is from mid 90s memory
>>18356574There was a millennial-era parody about a "Cranky Poodle" who turns out to be female, but I first read it in print form
Stuck*
It keeps trickling back for better or worse... I'm Popeye the sailor man, I live in a garbage can, I turned on the heater it burned off my weiner I'm Popeye the sailor man
>>18356289Literally just go back to China or Taiwan. The USA ís pretty much over at this point anyway.
>>18356289holy shit dude it's all in your head. Lots of girls actively like Asian guys and the rest care more about you being a cool dude than your race/height/weight/big nose/small chin/whatever stupid shit.I know a dude who's got cerebral palsy. He looks and sounds like a retarded person (he isn't), and rolls around in a wheelchair. Whenever he eats, he drools and sprays food and all that shit. And he's cultivating himself to be as presentable as possible to women. I guarantee you don't have it as bad as him, but he'll still get a girlfriend before you because he has a good attitude and works on himself.If you weren't asian it would be some other bullshit in your head stopping you. Life isn't fair but a shitty attitude doesn't help, nor is it attractive. It's up to you to dress presentably, develop social skills and friendships of both genders, get in shape, and cultivate interests. I guarantee you aren't doing that shit. Git gud fgtt. used to think like you
>>18356289I'm a WASP and my blonde ass sister is literally dating a Chinese-American guy lmao. Just look for Ivy League or Ivy League adjacent girls
>>18356606>>18356649>No don't give up on racemixing, you could probably even fuck my sister!The absolute state.
>>18356649I go to a T50 state school and am soon to be an unemployable cs major utwgcel
>>18354576the federal department of education doesn't control educational policy for the statesthe responsibility for schools goes to the local school district, private educational contractors, and the state department of education. all the federal DoEd does is administrate pell grants. gosh people are retarded
>>18356594How though? CS job market is dogshit, that's literally part of my grievances.
>>18354875fellas is it gay to be a chef, do some landscaping, or make some cool suits
>>18354583Early millennials had real social lives back when everything was on paper. The internet is basically just a marketing tool that helped them build that. It was never meant to be a surrogate reality for losers to upload every detail of their lives. In contrast, late millennials grew up during a time when everything was moved to digital storage and already required a smartphone to function in society.t. 29 and been here too long
>>18354538Not a boomer thing but the meme about "how come we learn about the Holocaust but not the Holodomor or Great Leap Forward etc in school" always confused me because we genuinely spent multiple weeks on the Holodomor and multiple more weeks on the Great Leap Forward in school and I went to a public school in the Jewiest state in the US (Jersey)If you didn't learn about the Holodomor or other communist atrocities its not because Jews control your schools its because you went to a shitty school
>>18357812Can you afford rent and food on such a salary?
>>18355733A lot of the old progressive movement objected to industrial society and wanted a retvrn to a more meaningful, rural life. Lord of the Rings exploded in popularity among these people. Nowadays such sentiments are seen as far right at worst and conservative at best . I guess it's true that today's progressives are tomorrow's conservatives.
>>18358412Yeah
>>18358459The Popular Front left had mixed feelings about industrialism. They lamented the plight of Okies and other rural people hit hard by the Depression but thought the solution was big TVA style government works projects or semi-collective farm communities like the one Johnny Cash grew up on in Arkansas. Woody Guthrie wrote a whole song cycle about hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River as a soundtrack for a film that was never made. Big factory go brrr was fine as long as the workers were unionized. There was also a leftist countercurrent of back to the land voluntary simplicity but that was held by cranks and bohemians on the margins, until it blossomed during the 60s, when every hippie had a tattered copy of LotR in his backpack. Nowadays there’s right wingers who praise “Uncle Ted” and dream of wheat fields but also Elon style tech bros, and there’s anarchist vegans in rural communes even as the left’s power base is urban areas. The left tries some “hello fellow rural white folx!” stuff at election time but really can’t hide their contempt for the hicks.
>>18354878Plenty of boys in high school had a blast. (Mostly with the cooking part, but I just think they liked food.)
>>18358685You think that's gonna revive again now that half of zoomers are out of work?Like is some crazy politician gonna come up with a "new new deal"I mean obv hope not but dyt it'll, well, happen?
>>18354833>Back to the homeschooling shit, wonder if I could model the way I run things on the way China does itDue to need for accreditation, homeschooling now has to follow guidelines so that may be a problem. You'd have to check with the appropriate authorities in the location you choose.
>>18357583>the federal department of education doesn't control educational policy for the statesLike hell.It may not directly do so by writing local policy but it absolutely does by reducing federal money given to districts that don't comply with what the agency wants.
>>18354592We're going to deport you
>>18354541No, it was learned in school. Even back in my day, in the 1990s, music class was a standard part of every elementary school, and part of that was to teach kids a few basic patriotic songs as well as local folk songs. I remember my music class fondly. I learned to play trumpet, recorder, and keyboard, and sing a bunch of simple ditties that are still stuck in my head 30 years later.
>>18354576The Department of Education doesn't actually have anything to do with educating people. They didn't "fail" at anything because they didn't actually do anything. So yes, defunding them was a good move. Why pay bureaucrats to sit around and hem and haw over shit they have no power to change?
>>18359706>federal money>to school districtslol. That's not how it works. At all. The money used by the DoE is used for grants. It does not have the power to fund school districts. That is reserved to the states.
My mom calls me Special, but my name is not Ed...
>>18354836>“Battle Hymn of the Republic” parody “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school…”kids today would probably get a terrorism charge for that
>>18360077I actually misremembered it. It's this.Not sure if the poet was aware of this, but there's actually a Japanese song called "I Hate School" or "I Hate These Classes" that's basically just this.https://youtu.be/Ac1OezBEbPk
My elementary school principal was pretty outstanding. He made sure we had Chorus and played the piano himself. We learned a bunch of folk songs like Erie Canal, Auld Lang Syne, America the Beautiful and the like. He even did a special chorus one time where the lyric sheets were printed with the parody lyrics we had been singing, like us barking during Fiddler on the Roof. Had his retirement party at the school and invited all former students and teachers. Genuinely great guy.
>>18360091Was chorus a required subject at your school? Here we had regular music class once a week, which sometimes did involve singing songs (though they were often stuff like African or Jewish folk songs), but other times we listened to classical music or played Orff percussion instruments.Meanwhile, chorus, strings, and band were for older students who were more serious about learning.
>>18360094Yeah, we'd all gather in the auditorium. I don't think the school had funding for a proper course so he just did it all himself
>>18354538https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXDVBkXc0FQThis is considered hate speech that Nazis speak of now
Zoomer here, I can confirm that we did in fact learn about the Eerie Canal. American History is a required subject in my state’s curriculum.Also, I remember having a music class back in elementary school and we learned a load of patriotic songs, like My Country Tis of Thee, This Land is My Land, I’m Proud to be an American, etc, though I didn’t like them all that much. My favorite was the one about having a house in Baltimore (maybe it was called Eliza Jane?)
>>18360193careful anon, or else one of the terminally online special ed kids ITT is going to start seething at you and pretend that your school must be the exception
>>18354538Private education is a must if you want your kids to learn anything important and in an environment where they don't get ridiculed or the shit beaten out of them by the other kids for even trying to learn.if you can't afford like 10 grand a year per kid to send them to a private school then wear a condom.
>>18360193https://youtu.be/Us0Uh57v0Tg?si=LHAN0RlMQweO6fD3There’s a million versions of this, in black and white folk traditions. You must have sung the one that starts with “I’ve got a gal in Baltimore…”
>>18360193https://youtu.be/tFlOyuxSgWY?si=LZbgqS5BBBOOA5lhA Western swing version with the house in Baltimore lyrics
>>18360427Didn't Lil Liza Jane originate from a minstrel song? And wasn't she black?
>>18360193>we did in fact learn about the Eerie Canallol
>>18360427>>18360461Neat, but neither were the version I learned. I remember the first verse was>I got a house in Baltimore, lil Liza Jane,>Streetcar runs right by my door, lil Liza JaneAnd the second verse I can only vaguely recall (I learned the song in the 3rd grade at the latest), but I’m pretty sure it went something like>I got a house in Baltimore, lil Liza Jane,>Walk right up and knock on the door, lil Liza JaneBut it might’ve been something about a “knocker on the door” specifically
>>18361336>>18362598https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27l_Liza_JaneTl;dnr—originated with blacks before the Civil War, popular with soldiers on both sides, taken up on the minstrel stage and went viral with a million variants. Like a lot of folk songs from that era it picks up scraps of verses from old songs and can easily accommodate new ones with the simple rhyming couplet form.
>>18361336>>18362598https://youtu.be/x4703-wERdY?si=fE_YEO66_LgYpAVgA related variant by Charlie Poole where the singer dumps gold digging thot Liza Jane. I couldn’t find the oldest minstrel version recorded on wax cylinder.
>>18355733The consolidation of the agriculture industry killed the yeoman farmer that the Left used to like. There isn't anything to RETVRN to when Monsanto owns all the patents on the seeds. On the other side, it became trendy even for rich people to claim leftist sympathies (already was by the time Seeger and Guthrie were out and about to be fair), and these rich people tended to be urbanites with little interest in the countryside beyond vacations. So singing about rural living and complaining about skyscrapers and marble banks didn't really have much cache with those types.
around 12 million people killed in the Holocaust if not more, including 6 million Jews. First victims of the Holocaust were Communists and Labour Union types.Now it's the Holocaust was just Jews and the other groups don't really matter.
>>18362598The version I learned:>I love a girl that you may know,>Li'l Liza Jane.>Way down south in Baltimore,>Li'l Liza Jane.>Oh, Eliza, Li'l Liza Jane (x2)
>>18356574Yankee Doodle went to town, riding on a heater, accidentally turned it on and burnt his little weiner
>>18354538People used to be taught about their blood, the strength of their race, to feel proud of their race and their people, their nation. Now we are not taught to be proud. One day a prophecy made in 1939,Shall become the aim of all time,As we try to finish what he has done,It's time to rise under spinning black sun.
>>18363760Post hands
>>18354570>various Minecraft parodies of pop songsong we're cooked fr unc
>>18363874"Bring it down, creepers""Bring it down, skellies too"(To the tune of the bridge in "Happy" by Pharrell Williams)
>>18362819>So singing about rural living and complaining about skyscrapers and marble banks didn't really have much cache with those types.It did by the time you get to the 60s.
Sung to the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic":>Glory, glory hallelujah!>Teacher hit me with a ruler>I hid behind the door>With a loaded .44>Now we don't have a teacher anymore!Parody of the theme to the "Popeye the Sailorman" cartoon:>Popeye the sailorman>He lived in a garbage can>He turned on the heater>And burned off his peter>He's Popeye the sailorman!
>>18356594>ísBUENOS DIAS SENOR DO NOT DEPORT ME O ALGO MI ABUELITA HAS EL DIABETICO
