Discussion: Teacher On Leave After Making Students Read Lyrics Of Anti-Trump Eminem Song

Understandable. There are people that donā€™t think Eminem is complete dreck?

So what are the lyrics?

You asked for itā€¦

Yo, shout to everybody
Whoā€™s been on this trip with me
You donā€™t have to, agree
But if you feel like me

Someone get this Aryan a sheet
Time to bury him, so tell him to prepare to get impeached
Everybody on your feet
This is where terrorism and heroism meet, square off in the street
This chump barely even sleeps
All he does is watch Fox News like a parrot and repeats
While he looks like a canary with a beak
Why you think he banned transgenders from the military with a tweet?
Heā€™s tryinā€™ to divide us, this shitā€™s like a cult
But like Johnny heā€™ll only unite us
ā€˜Cause nothinā€™ inside us drives us like this fight does
Similar to when two cars collide 'cause
Our spiritā€™s crushed, and this spotā€™s a tight one
But here the jaws of life come
To pull us from the wreckage, thatā€™s what we get pride from
When we canā€™t from our stars and stripes cause
This type of pickle that weā€™re in is hard to deal
But thereā€™s always tomorrow still
If we start from scratch like a scab, get the scars to heal
And band together for Charlottesville
And for Heather, fallen heroes, fill this wall with murals
Nevada get up, hit the damn resetter
Letā€™s start from zero, this is our renewal
Spray tan, get rid of, get a brand new, better
America, and hereā€™s to where it all

And hereā€™s to where we all began, all began (stand up!)
Hereā€™s to the land that made me
And made me who I am, who I am (hands up!)
Hereā€™s to the land that raised me
This one for the only place that really knows me
From the cracks in the road that drove me
Thereā€™s no place like home

Didnā€™t wanna piss your base off, did ya?
Canā€™t denounce the Klan, ā€˜cause they play golf with ya
You stay on Twitter, way to get your hate off
Nazi, I do not see a way yā€™all differ
And all you got are race cards, bigot
The swastika with your name carved in it
Should be your trademark, ā€˜cause hateā€™s all you played off
And you just lick the plate off
So I guess it pays to feed off of chaos
So basically, you ate off Hitler!
But you ainā€™t ruininā€™ our country, punk
Or takinā€™ our pride from us, you wonā€™t define us
ā€˜Cause like a dictionary, things are lookinā€™ up
So much, got a sprained neck, know we would rise up
Against this train wreck and take a stand
Even if it means sittinā€™ when they raise the flag
To sing ā€œThe Star-Spangled Bannerā€
This man just praised a statue of General Lee
'Cause he generally hates the black people, degrades hispanics
Take it back to the Shady national convention
Wish I woulda spit on it before I went to shake his hand
At the event or maybe had the wherewithal
To know that he was gonna try to tear apart
Our sacred land we cherish and stand for
So, hands in the air, letā€™s hear it for
The start of a brand new America
Without him and be proud of where weā€™re from
And hereā€™s to where we all

And hereā€™s to where we all began, all began (stand up!)
Hereā€™s to the land that made me
And made me who I am, who I am (hands up!)
Hereā€™s to the land that raised me
This one for the only place that really knows me
From the cracks in the road that drove me
Thereā€™s no place like home

I wonā€™t give up
I wonā€™t give up on my home, that so many died for
You already know that I wonā€™t give up
I wonā€™t give up on my home, that so many died for
You already know
Thereā€™s no place like home, no place like home
Wherever I go, no place like home
No place like home, no place like home
Wherever I go (yeah)Hereā€™s to where we all began, all began (stand up!)
Hereā€™s to the land that made me
And made me who I am, who I am (hands up!)
Hereā€™s to the land that raised me
This one for the only place that really knows me
From the cracks in the road that drove me
Thereā€™s no place like home

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oh well the principalā€™s a mor(m)on. with friends like Trump who needs Eminem?

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I seem to remember the original joke was, ā€œWith friends like these, who needs enemas.ā€

But it works here as well.

o/t - but here is the wisdom of our sec. of education:

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So I guess they are not allowed to teach current event in SLC.

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Guess then that Sarah H. Sanders was all choked up about guns being discussed, not turned on kids like this one.

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Or, as I saw on a car today, ā€œWith ferns like these, who needs anemones?ā€

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Oh, goodie. Can we hear some more about how ā€œleftist, easily triggered snowflakes and Social Justice Warriorsā€ are shutting down free speech in America due to ā€œpolitical correctnessā€?

Or can we have an actual, factual dialogue about how the right has steadily eroded free speech over the last quarter century, more or less, throughā€”among other things---- a series of carefully-planned outrage campaigns in our nationā€™s schools, with the right wing agitprop apparatus (Fox, Drudge, Sinclair Broadcast, the National Review, the Weekly Standard, the Daily Caller, and aspects of CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, and the supposedly mainstream print media) giving maximum coverage to these stories in order to encourage still other students and parents to express their ā€œoutrageā€ or ā€œoffense,ā€ to silence more veteran teachers, to place the control of the dialogue more and more in the hands of right-wing administrators, school boards, and activist groups.

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I dunno, context would be pretty important here. Materials like this in the classroom really should be handled carefully, and itā€™s not clear how coercive the teacher was in having her kids read it. Was this something she picked out and told the kids to read? Or did she ask for examples of protest poetry and ask them to share?

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Iā€™m sure the kids probably complained because they wanted something hipper, something more contemporary, perhaps a poem about a different huckster by William W. Phelps (1792-1872), set to something with a really cool beat, say, a Scottish folk song. You know, ā€œPraise to the Man.ā€

So would ā€œDulce et Decorum Estā€ be okay, now that the Great War is over?

Yeah, I donā€™t know the details, and Eminem is not Wilfrid Owen by a country mile, but if you canā€™t teach and discuss things that matter in the present, whatā€™s the point of ā€œeducation?ā€ Critical thought was pretty cool there for a while, but I guess itā€™s just way too 20th-century.

Maybe Iā€™m wrong, and the teacher was demanding they all agree and pledge fealty to Antifa. But somehow I doubt it.

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This story reminds me that our local GOP daily has virtually NO negative stories regarding Trump.
Two maybe three AP Trump stories will be decaudated to near worthlessness and thatā€™s it. Reader letters, Trump as topic get heavily edited. Wonder how many around the US with the power to censor are doing so.

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So much for Academic Freedom . . . at least in Utah.

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Her penance will be to say 10 White Manā€™s Burdens and 1 Gunga Din and promise to only use virulent anti-Obama screeds to illustrate bias in the future.

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Of course, if a few years back a teacher had made students read the lyrics to ā€œBarack the Magic Negroā€, it would have been all honky-dory.

I grew up just north of NYC not far from the site of the 1948 Peekskill riots. Pete Seeger once considered to be a ā€œRedā€ still had a presence in the area and would play the yearly Clearwater festival. As a kid we would sing his and Peter Paul and Mary songs in class with the choir. No one complained but there were some old timers down at the VFW Hall who would grumble about him even though he was a WWII veteran.

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