State Schools Are Great Schools

It's harsh, it's mean, it's brutal,

The people by nature are cruel;

It's a den of sin and they let kids in -

It's a government secondary school.

Children can't go into hotels,

There's movies they are not to see:

I can't see the sense of protecting innocence

When school is compulsory.

Some people see school as a machine

Where students are put through the sieve:

If they're deluged with society's values

How come they're still primitive?

Students' creativity is being stunted?

Hey buddy, don't make me laugh.

Some people berate 'cos schools socializate -

Man, they don't do it enough.

There's shit everywhere but the toilets;

You learn anywhere but in class;

There sex and drugs and knives and thugs -

"State schools are great schools" my arse.

The teachers are cynical and tired

Of students both cynical and dumb.

They get to fightin' - ad infinitum -

Only stops when the holidays come.

Private schools are rich and elitist,

The parents pick their kids up in the Merc:

State schools are around for the ideologically sound -

It's a shame they don't seem to work.