Parents’ secret anti-charter weapons: wit, talent, YouTube
by CarolineSF
Presented in good fun and with serious but light intent. Thanks to Joe Sharp for helping with iPhone video.
Lyrics:
LSD Charter School Blues
Derived by Ken Adams and Wes Fredenburg
(Apologies to Robert Zimmerman and Marshall Mathers)
Well I'm in the basement helpin' with some homework
Thinkin' 'bout the charter, thinkin' that it won't work
All these faces I'm seein' at the dropoffs
Promised that they'd be takin' their names off
Watch out kids because they keep it all hid
This charter is divisive, causin' local crisis
And it's chewin' up the district, spittin' on the respect
Don't need a lawyer to tell ya what ya oughta...
Do what you promised, time to take your name off!
Well it wasn't Jack or Bob or Mick or Mable
Or DJ Bob with his turntable
Not even George or Dick (that was a left wing fable)
I'd tell you who signed but I'm not able
Look out kids because they keep it all hid
The names are here to see in the LSD
Oops there goes gravity, Oops there goes gravity
Choke there goes gravity, Hope there goes gravity
How ya gonna feed and water everybody's son and daughter
If you don't take your name off the prima donna charter
Well remember that old song, everybody get along
We're a public school, all three programs rule!
Waldorf, Open and Montessori
Everybody shares in the pain and the glory
$200k'd go an awful long way
But instead of Tom Sawyer they sharpened up their lawyers
Well one thing that I think we all agree
Is that we live in the sticks and we STILL got three
Choices alternatives, we can all be grateful
For what the SGV has laid on our table
Look out kids, don't keep it all hid
Don't be a Bernie Madoff
Time to take your name off
Take your name off....
Lyrics:
LSD Charter School Blues
Derived by Ken Adams and Wes Fredenburg
(Apologies to Robert Zimmerman and Marshall Mathers)
Well I'm in the basement helpin' with some homework
Thinkin' 'bout the charter, thinkin' that it won't work
All these faces I'm seein' at the dropoffs
Promised that they'd be takin' their names off
Watch out kids because they keep it all hid
This charter is divisive, causin' local crisis
And it's chewin' up the district, spittin' on the respect
Don't need a lawyer to tell ya what ya oughta...
Do what you promised, time to take your name off!
Well it wasn't Jack or Bob or Mick or Mable
Or DJ Bob with his turntable
Not even George or Dick (that was a left wing fable)
I'd tell you who signed but I'm not able
Look out kids because they keep it all hid
The names are here to see in the LSD
Oops there goes gravity, Oops there goes gravity
Choke there goes gravity, Hope there goes gravity
How ya gonna feed and water everybody's son and daughter
If you don't take your name off the prima donna charter
Well remember that old song, everybody get along
We're a public school, all three programs rule!
Waldorf, Open and Montessori
Everybody shares in the pain and the glory
$200k'd go an awful long way
But instead of Tom Sawyer they sharpened up their lawyers
Well one thing that I think we all agree
Is that we live in the sticks and we STILL got three
Choices alternatives, we can all be grateful
For what the SGV has laid on our table
Look out kids, don't keep it all hid
Don't be a Bernie Madoff
Time to take your name off
Take your name off....
