What songs do they teach kids in school now?

Alex Balk wondered if kids still learn “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round The Mountain” and “This Land Is Your Land.” I think I learned the former outside school, the latter in it. Also learned “Fifty Nifty United States,” which surprised the thirty-odd-old Balk when I told him.

But hey, I went to a one-building 300-student K-12 Baptist school. Trade-off was we learned Jesus made the animals.

So are the kids still learning songs like those? And for that matter, what do they learn about the Mona Lisa?

Jun

3

2009

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  1. weneedtheeggs answered: They learn that Martin Luther is not “that dude from BET specials.”
  2. therocketsurgeon answered: Alabama and Alaska, Arizona Arkansas….
  3. markcoatney answered: W a-s-h i-n-g t-o-n, baby, D.C.! W a-s-h i-n-g t-o-n, baby, D.C.!
  4. miltnr answered: Well, sweetie, to be fair, you are Canadian.
  5. charitini reblogged this from katiebakes and added:
    I have NEVER HEARD THIS.
  6. karenuhoh reblogged this from dorothymantooth and added:
    Try being locked in a head with “Michael, Row The Boat Ashore.”
  7. dorothymantooth reblogged this from katiebakes and added:
    Seriously. This “Nifty Fifty” nonsense is like The New Math, isn’t it? Oh, shit. You don’t know that there was an Old...
  8. brilliantorange answered: Yes, they still learn those songs. My youngest also talks about the demon Pazzuzu. Whatever.
  9. darknessfalls answered: Nothing about the Mona Lisa or Jesus but when I was in 2nd grade (about 8 years ago) we learned Fifty Nifty United States
  10. saidme answered: This has nothing to do with your point but my K class performed Mr. Bojangles. Fuck, the 70s were awesome.
  11. katiebakes reblogged this from nickdouglas and added:
    North, south, east, west In our cool, considered, objective, unprejudiced opinion NEW JERSEY IS THE BEST of the… Fifty...
  12. harrisuz answered: If you take my brother as an example, who is 16 and doesn’t know who the first president was, then the answer is not much.Not a good example.
  13. sciencevsromance answered: they learn about Mona Lisa in the Dan Brown semester.
  14. yvynyl answered: I have no idea, but I loved singing “This Land is Your Land” when I was a kid!
  15. insooutso answered: When I went to school we learned sigur rós songs, but only because my teachers were pixies that granted learning wishes.
  16. pleasedontsqueezetheshaman answered: I was forced to sing “Elvira” by the Oak Ridge Boys. I want my childhood back.
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