Zain Bhikha presents a version of Harry Chapin’s “Flowers Are Red” (1978) with the voices of kids in the choruses. My absolute favourite rendition is Harry’s own but this one is done quite well.
Heidi at Southpaugh Homeschool this week posted a video entitled “Not On The Test.” The song was written by Harry’s brother Tom, and John Forster. In a way Tom is echoing the message of his brother, thirty years later. He says:
Now we are teaching by rote again – where the test, and only the test, becomes the reason to teach and study.
It’s no secret that American industry has outsourced most factory jobs to other countries to take advantage of cheaper labor costs. So why are we putting so much effort into a form of education in which there is no creativity? This is the time that our youth should be taught to think ”out of the box,” not be put into a tighter one!
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