anti-school songs

Subject: RE: anti-school songs
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 09:57 PM

At both Northampton Town & County School where I was from 8-11 & Hendon County School, 11-18, the variant that would mysteriously appear 3 days before the end of every term on every blackboard, & be allowed to remain for a few hours by sporting teachers with respect for ancient traditions till the board was needed again (or anyhow that is my, perhaps somewhat romanticised recollection 60 years later), was

Three more days and we shall be
Out of this Land of Misery
No more Latin no more French
No more whacks across the bench

Amazing how we never ever tired of it. True Tradition!

Subject: RE: anti-school songs
From: GUEST,Dicknose
Date: 16 Oct 11 - 02:04 AM

My old 4th grade friend made up this little ditty way back in '78:

"Teachers are dumb, teachers are dumb,
They don't even know what's one plus one."

And who could ever forget this one:

"School's out, school's out
Teacher let the monkeys out!
One went east, one went west
One went up the teacher's dress!"

But after high school graduation, we sang a slightly different version:

"School's out, school's out
Teacher let the monkeys out!
One was jailed, one prevailed!
Both asked God 'how have I failed?'"

Subject: RE: anti-school songs
From: GUEST,Tony
Date: 16 Oct 11 - 11:26 AM

I am a fool. I am a fool.
For twenty years I went to school.
Now, whenever I pass, I pee
on New York University.

Subject: RE: anti-school songs
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 16 Oct 11 - 11:45 AM

Well there was this to I'd like to teach the world to sing:

I'd like to teach the IRA
To blow up all the schools
With gelignite and dynamite
And all the teachers too!

I've not a clue how it got to the small primary school I was at in Wales but it did.

Subject: RE: anti-school songs
From: GUEST,Sue Jones
Date: 30 Jun 20 - 05:24 AM

I remember my older brother singing this version of "Sixteen tons":

Spuds of iron, peas of steel,
If the dinner don't get you, then the afters will.

I don't know if there's any more of it.