Since I've been a professional educator for most of my career, most people would probably not expect a song like "School's Out" to be one of my favoritist songs. But as my good friend Hondo says, "Peoples is idiots."
In truth, teachers can hate school as much or more than the students. And having worked as a teacher for six years, I can guarantee that the only people that detest the principal more than the students are the teachers. By the end of the year, the teachers are so sick of putting up with crap from administrators that they can barely hold on to their sanity until that last bells rings and they have three therapeutic months to repress the urge to firebomb the principal's office.
Don't get me wrong. I learned to hate school plenty enough when I was a student. The last semester of high school went pretty sour for me. I did have some good memories, especially of Mz. Marsh Valley, band tour, and track. But when I wasn't hanging out with friends, I basically retreated mentally into this little corner of hell reserved for teenage boys that have sworn off dating due to multiple rejections only to be asked out to the senior prom by their principal. (That entire tale will be chronicled in another related song.) Anyway, for the last four months of high school, I basically felt like Alice Cooper looks. And this song perfectly embodies the way I felt about school by graduation.
Well we got no class.
And we got no principals.
And we got no innocence.
We can't even think of a word that rhymes.
School's out for summer!
School's out forever!
My school's been blown to pieces!
It was lyrics like these that made Alice Cooper one of the evil musicians that our religious leaders warned us about--a depraved pervert that would brainwash us with his song lyrics so that he could lead the youth astray and eventually destroy our nation through the spread of sin. But honestly, after this last election and what we've seen Trump do to America so far, do we really still think Alice is the one that wants to destroy public education, set a bad example for our youth, and send the country down the path of ruin? Hell! I'd vote for him!
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