Oh hey, welcome back. As you might remember, my escapades on this blog last semester consisted entirely of me talking about my favorite up and coming athletes and their mixtapes. Well, I’m not doing that anymore. Over the course of last semester, I found myself thinking about why I liked doing the blogs. Ultimately, I found that although I liked the basketball mixtapes, almost nobody else in the class was as passionate about them as I was. So, I figured I’ll change it up so that I can use my fast knowledge and internet expertice, while still trying to be interesting and fun for all to read. SO, for this semester, you can expect to read about anything from the grotesque to the emotional to the obscene, but all of them will have 1 thing in common: For one reason or another, they’re some of the best videos on the internet.

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Alright, now that that’s out of the way, welcome to Vol 1: ‘Don’t Stay in School’ edition. ‘Don’t Stay In School’ is an absolutely amazing music video about the fundamental problems of our education system. Though it might initially sound like the ramblings of one frustrated soul given the misleading the title, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. The author, Dave Brown aka Boyinaband, actually is referring to the information we needless learn and recite in schools when he says ‘Don’t Stay in School’ and is simply trying to express his frustration with what he had and hadn’t learned in schools.

You see, his qualm is not with the usefulness of schools in society, but rather their ineffectiveness in teaching most people the critical tactics they need to succeed in life. Without getting too deep into the specifics(We’d be here all day) Brown finally makes his point clear at the end of the video: All subjects should be introduced in schools, but the only subjects that should be mandatory are subjects that apply practically to people’s lives. He also implies in the song that the freed up time should be used to teach kids things that will be useful, like how to pay taxes, disperse earnings, identify preventable diseases, and even parent. All the other subjects, in his view, should be optional, in that students should choose if they wish to learn more beyond what is simply practical for every day use.

Lastly, I absolutely love this video. At first, you can’t help but be skeptical, but the viewpoint Boyinaband comes from is so fresh and well presented and honestly surprisingly valid, so its no surprise the video has almost 1 million likes and 22 million views. Trust me, if you listen to this, you’ll wonder how much easier your life could’ve been in Brown’s system vs the current one.