The New Curriculum
The world’s going to hell in a hand basket
But at least you’re learning useful things at school,
Even got a new curriculum:
English
Math
Science
Socials
P.E.
Career Prep
It’s the New Curriculum.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
New Math:
Quadratics, trigonometry, graphing…
God forbid we learn how to budget,
Cuz the debt crisis didn’t come from nowhere.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
New English:
Novels, poems, dead people…
All necessary to succeed in life,
Cuz who can really live without that drama?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
New Science:
Periodic table, body parts and physics math…
All fascinating information at parties,
Cuz ya know everybody remembers it all.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
New Socials:
Ancient civilizations & Old-Canada
Don’t get too bored or you might miss something,
Cuz all this relates to your life somehow.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
So in a world full of problems
How about a curriculum that relates to our lives
Day 1 Block 1: Climate Change & Sustainability
Cuz this is not a debate. It’s a fact!
Can we survive like this? Well, can WE survive like this?!
Block 2: Medicine and mental health
Cuz one in five of you will suffer depression,
And anxiety and suicide are pretty bad too.
Block 3: Waste & water management
Cuz that land fill ain’t gettin’ any smaller,
And the Exon Valdez spills every year in the tar sands.
Block 4: Democracy, Law and Politics
Cuz how many of us voted last election,
And NAFTA lets gas companies put nerve toxin in gas.
Day 2:
Block 1: Computers & Programming
Cuz they run your lives,
And most of you don’t have a clue how.
Block 2: Racism & Oppression
Cuz most of the world deals with this problem
And Aboriginal people live what kind of lives?
Block 3: Equity and Equality
Cuz one is not the other,
And ladies make how much less money?
Block 4: Engineering
Cuz you drove here in something, you live in a building
And you should know something about them.
And anybody tell you that I missed poetry…
We in here talking about poetry.
I mean, listen, we talking about poetry
Not reality, not reality, not reality,
We talking about poetry
Not reality, the reality that I go out there and die for
And live every day like it’s my last
Not reality, we talking about poetry man
I mean how silly is that?
We talking about poetry.
I know I supposed to love it,
I know I supposed to lead by example
I know that,
And I’m not shuvin’ it aside
You know, like it don’t mean anything
I know it’s important
I do! I honestly do.
But we talking about poetry man
What are we talking about?
Poetry?
We talking about poetry man.
We talking about poetry.
We talking about poetry.
We ain’t talking about reality,
We talking about poetry, man.