Ga. Student Suspended for Threatening Song

[KittyDuran]

Marijuana, marijuana,
LSD, LSD
Scientists make it,
teachers take it
Why can't we?
Why can't we?

[Roy Tucker]

EDIT: forgot the first verse

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school
We have tortured every teacher, we have broken every rule,
We have shot the secretary, we have hung the principal
Our truth goes marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Teacher hit me with a ruler.
I bopped her on the bean with a rotten tangerine
And teacher taught no more.

[BuckWoody]

I think that song was around when I was in grade school and dinosaurs walked the earth.

I remember it well, except the lyrics seemed to have changed some over the years. I remember it as:

On top of Old Smokey
All covered with sand,
I shot my teacher
With a red rubber band.
I shot her with pleasure
I shot her with pride.
I couldn't have missed her,
She was 50 feet wide.

[savafan]

When I was in school it was:

On top of old smokey
All covered with blood
I shot my teacher
With a .44 slug
I went to her funeral
I went to her grave
Some people threw flowers
I threw a grenade

[BuckWoody]

When I was in school it was:

On top of old smokey
All covered with blood
I shot my teacher
With a .44 slug
I went to her funeral
I went to her grave
Some people threw flowers
I threw a grenade

Yeah! It's all coming back to me now. I remember singing the funeral/grave/flowers/grenade part. I think we used to just tack that on after the "50-feet wide" part. We were all farm kids so I'm not sure we were hip enough to sing the .44 slug part.

[Red Heeler]

How many kids go to school every weekday, how many millions of kids? For how many thousands of days in this country's history? How many teachers have been shot or killed?

You're more likely to step out your front door and be crushed by a talking, breakdancing anvil than be killed by a student in a school in this country.

This suspension isn't "playing it safe." It's an idiotic and political "get tough" message.

Everybody do the propaganda,
And sing along with the age of paranoia

[KittyDuran]

Not teacher related... but a classic little school ditty:

Great big globs of greasy grimey gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat
Little dirty birdy feet
French fried eyeballs drenched in kerosene
I forgot my spoon (in a pool of blood) or (but I got my straw-then make a slurping noise).

[Red Heeler]

Not teacher related... but a classic little school ditty:

Great big globs of greasy grimey gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat
Little dirty birdy feet
French fried eyeballs drenched in kerosene
I forgot my spoon (in a pool of blood) or (but I got my straw-then make a slurping noise).

Cruelty to animals as a child is one of the hallmarks of serial killers. We should probably lock up any kid who knows the words to this song. Just in case, you know.

[KronoRed]

I don't remember the .44 slug part from school, that must be a new addition, I recall our teachers rolling their eyes at it.

[KronoRed]

Marijuana, marijuana,
LSD, LSD
Scientists make it,
teachers take it
Why can't we?
Why can't we?

[WVRed]

First is the worst
Second is the best
Third is the one with the hairy chest.

Ironically enough, I got in trouble for singing that song.

[Ravenlord]

Ironically enough, I got in trouble for singing that song.

i got in trouble for singing this song:
"World in flames, set ablaze by my own hands.
With the sun, our burdens begone. Body and
soul divorce, as fire and mind unite.
With my tears your grief will drown, in
thoughts of beauty bathed.
In nakedness I bid farewell, and the
blindness be gone..."

[Yachtzee]

i got in trouble for singing this song:
"World in flames, set ablaze by my own hands.
With the sun, our burdens begone. Body and
soul divorce, as fire and mind unite.
With my tears your grief will drown, in
thoughts of beauty bathed.
In nakedness I bid farewell, and the
blindness be gone..."

"Don't Fear the Reaper..."

You probably wouldn't have gotten in trouble if you had just used MORE COWBELL!

[RedFanAlways1966]

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

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[Raisor]

The day after the story broke, she was on a local radio show here in Atlanta (the show I interned for back in 95 actually) telling her side of the story (and she sang the song on air too).

After hearing her side of it, I would have suspended her too. Everything she's said, points out she's had problems with this teacher all year (or more accuratly, the teacher has had problems from her). If this was a one time thing, no biggie, but they've been having problems for a year. Enough's enough.