Birthplace of The Education President Song

Thanks so much to Shari of An Old Soul for inviting me to join The Advocates, a group of bloggers who blog in support of public education. I hope you'll enjoy my "No Child Left Behind" related song parody, poetry, and other humor, as well as my Bush Isn't An Education President, He Just Plays One, a serious piece which I wrote for the essay collection Big Bush Lies, edited by Jerry "Politex" Barrett of BushWatch fame.

• There's No Substitute For A Bad Job (Limerick and Haiku)
  " In my twenties I substitute taught.
  ‘Tis a challenging job and it’s fraught; ..."

• Bulletproof Backpacks: In Case Your Kid’s Classmate Is Packing "It’s mid-August, which means back-to-school day is just around the corner. And that in turn means it’s time to start shopping for school supplies: rulers and notebooks and pens and lunch boxes and calculators and computers and school clothes and … bulletproof backpacks??? ..."

• The Education President Song (to be sung to "I Write The Songs")
  "Bush promised parents that he'd fix our schools.
  That he'd make sure their children didn't turn out fools.
  But all the teachers got were lots of rules..."

• Musical Accord "One afternoon your ten-year old daughter comes home from school, enthused about learning to play an instrument. Your eyeballs start to throb. Your head begins to pulsate. You ask yourself whether tin ears are passed down from parents to their children..."

• School Daze (Limerick)
  “I crammed for the test—studied madly.
  But, alas, I’m afraid I did badly ..."

• Collegiate Conversation (Limerick)
  "“Tell me, why are you being so mean?”
  Cried the girl to the college’s dean. ..."

• Edu-Gaffe (Limerick)
  "Being accurate’s highly essential.
  This is math, not some course existential. ..."

• How To Give A Speech (Humorous How-To) "In a moment of weakness you agreed to give a speech. What are you in for? If you're lucky, it won't be any worse than this..."

• Mis-Education President
  Bush swore he'd leave no child behind,
  A very worthy goal.
  Instead, he left the states a great big budgetary hole.

• Practice, Practice, Practice (Limerick)
  "The teacher called out from his car:
  “Ma’am, your daughter’s a driver’s ed star. ..."

• Ode To An Earthquake (Limerick)
  "It’s ‘71. I awake
  In LA to a 6.6 quake. ..."

• Pat Robertson Does Dover -- Limerick
  "The Dover folks showed their defiance,
  When they nixed ID preaching with science..."

• Dubya Defends Rod Paige (Comic Strip)

• Testy About Tests "Now that school's back in session, people are obsessing and fretting about tests. Newsweek even devoted a large chunk of a recent issue to "The Truth About Testing." But while Newsweek focused on pre-college tests and the SAT, it's the GMAT that's really driving me "Mad." Or at least it would be, if I were hoping to earn an MBA. Not that I was planning to, mind you. Law school was more than enough punishment for one lifetime, thank you very much."

• This Driver's Ed "In a Just Shoot Me sitcom episode, Dennis Finch (played by David Spade) moonlights as a drivers ed classroom teacher whose students have been court-ordered to take his class. Spade depicts Finch as a dedicated, MV law-savvy teacher with a dark secret: He doesn't know how to drive..."

• Bush Don't Need No Demonstrations (To be sung to "Another Brick in the Wall," by Pink Floyd)

• Dubya Makes The Grade (Comic Strip)

• Dubya Does College (Comic Strip)

• Bush Isn't An Education President, He Just Plays One -- a serious essay about Bush & No Child Left Behind

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