WritingFix is currently seeking additional student samples from this writing assignment that can be featured in this space. Submitted student work must show evidence of revision, editing, and the final draft must be typed and sent through e-mail. Teachers: if you can help us obtain one, two or three student samples, along with a digital photo of the student(s) and a signed permission slip, we will send you either a complimentary copy of one of the Northern Nevada Writing Project's print publications.

Write to us at publish@writingfix.com and write "School Song Parodies" in your e-mail's subject line, if you have a student sample to share with us.

School Lunch Anthem
by Lauren and Claire, 7th grade writers
(sung to the tune of The Star Spangled Banner)

Time to go to lunch,
Gonna eat a bunch:
Chicken broccoli and cheese
Cookies, cakes, and pastries.
Going through the lunch line,
Holding my lunch tray
As I walked with my lunch,
I heard many people screaming.

Food is flying everywhere
It is stuck in my hair
To be honest with you.
It was such a big nightmare.

Oh, please get me out of this lunch room fast
Or before you know it,
My arm will be wrapped in a cast.

(Click here to view/print Lauren and Claire's song, as well as the songs of two classmates.)

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Descending Grades
by Levi & Josh, 8th grade writers
(sung to the tune of "The Wheels on the Bus")

My grades in school keep going down, going down, going down.
My grades in school keep going down all the way to F's.

I had straight A's in Kindergarten, Kindergarten, Kindergarten,
I had straight A's in Kindergarten, now they are all F's.

In first grade I was doing better, doing better, doing better.
In first grade I was doing better, then my dog dies.

My grades were slipping down again, down again, down again
My grades were slipping down again, the rest is history!

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