Not on the Test

The video for the song, "Not on the Test," that Tom Chapin wrote with John Forster. The two wrote the song to express their disappointment in the lack of arts education in public schools. www.notonthetest.com

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[kdctjohnson1]

With No Child Left Behind (NCLB) this is how we often feel. Poor kids!

[nomphrons]

I'm in this video im the blonde haired kid at 0:56 no joke I know everyone in there!

[majormana1]

friends were part if childrens town choir about a week before christmas Id take them caroling. Even some tiny tots who didnt know how to speak would come and ring bell in rehersal and while caroling.

[majormana1]

@littlesongbird1 Yes it did stink and suck. They liked their art teacher to they pouted for about a week. I made sure after school they had art or music they always had paper to color on while ate snack. I think they are better thinkers then ithers their age cause despite no art or music in school they still got to do art and music. wensdays I let them and all their friends paint. tuesday and saturdays(sats switched to sun when for lil ones in area I held preschool prep class) them and their

[littlesongbird1]

@majormana1 That sticks! I loved my art teacher, may she rest in peace and our music teachers were awesome. You know, check out a community center or the YMCA. They may have a program or two you can enroll your children in.

[majormana1]

came home in 4th and 2nd grade and said we just had our last music class and no art this year.

[majormana1]

this song is so right its scary. im 26 oldest of many sibs the youngest is 4. i live in indaina but sibs are in illinois where pre k is required now wich is ridiclous. in kindergaten when i was in it you learned numbers, alphabet and manners we played rest of time i was a litle bored. now they want 3 yr olds to read and write. 3rd graders learning math i didnt see till jr high. 2nd graders learning geogrophy. art and music use to be big deal they arent i remember when sibs now 17 and almost 16

[hmacw]

@trferguson22 That's not the point of this. The song says nothing about how hard they work; it's about the educational system as a whole, specifically testing. Something which largely is out of the control of most teachers.

[lelenina2]

I always get taught everything that is not on the test, and when the test comes, I still somehow manage to whip out those 100%'s. My secret is to eat Smarties right before taking it.

[trferguson22]

teachers at my school work their tails off...even outside of school hours, which most people don't know. How many people do you know that work off the clock?

[bobeagle007]

@hmacw ..Aww don't feel sad..It's just my opinion.