Unfortunately, I'm not referring to
The Journey: Live Another Day. (I pretty much haven't done any work on that one since my last post about it.) No, this time I'm referring to a protest song I wrote about NAPLAN, titled "NAPLAN" because I'm uber creative.
This was written for English. I'm not joking.
Some things are subject to change, especially dynamics. Voice parts may change if people experience difficulty in singing them. (Yes, I'm going to get real people to sing my song! This is so exciting, since I've never gotten a chance to hear
The Singing Magicians or
Jei being performed!)
Lyrics:
Little girl walks home from school and
Fights to keep the fear away.
She believes that NAPLAN
Really shows how smart she is.
Yes, we are moving Australia forward
By turning its youths to numbers.
Trees are killed, just so that children
Nationwide can all suffer.
Save the trees, the hypocrites say,
The same ones that give out the tests.
Yes, we are moving Australia forward
By turning its youths to numbers.
NAPLAN, NAPLAN, does its pros outweigh
The num'rous cons that we see every day? Oh!
NAPLAN, NAPLAN, I think that you will find
That the answer to this question is maybe not.
One school wants to look cool on MySchool
By making all the students sit last year's test.
Teachers told to use less paper,
Admin's blind not to realise why.
NAPLAN, NAPLAN, are the many stresses
Justified by the little good they do bring?
NAPLAN, NAPLAN, I think that you will find
That the answer to your question is maybe not.
Teachers drilling facts into their students,
Forcing them to learn only two subjects,
'Cause if time was spent on other subjects,
There wouldn't be time for NAPLAN!
Computer makes a mistake and
Marks twenty papers all wrong.
Students and teachers chastised for
Fault that was not their own.
Yes, we are moving Australia forward
By turning its youth to numbers,
Turning its youth to numbers,
Turning its youth to numbers!
