Hi, I'm Dave from Boyinaband!
And I'm pretty excited at the moment. On the livestream we did just after "Don't Stay In School"
A few of you suggested that we all poke the Fine Brothers on Twitter and on YouTube
and suggest that people react to "Don't Stay In School" . When I went to VidCom recently
I met the Fine Brothers and they told me that they had been waiting to release "Don't Stay In School"
as a "Parents React" video which is a new series they have started
'cause they really wanted to see what parents thought and I thought it's fricking genius
I cannot wait to see what they have to say. And I'm quite excited because it's a fricking Fine Brothers
React Video about something I made. Let's give this a go
[Parents React Theme] [Singing Dave]: Parents React!
[React Theme]
Oh, it's officially a viral video now!
[Singing Dave] It's my song!
[Margarita]: Don't stay in school?
[Dave]: What up, Marc? [Marc]: Cool hair [Dave]: He seems like a smart guy
[Adiaha] I have to say I wouldn't have expected this awesome level of rapping from a guy that looks like that
[Dave] Well, eh thanks, I think?
[Marc]: True
[Malcom]: There should be a law against that hair
[Dave]: Ohhhhhh!
[Dave]: This is great! [Dave]: Thanks, Dave
[Adiaha] Nice!
[Dave] That was amazing!
[Reacting Parent] Aw, that's what I do! I teach!
[Dave]: I'm not calling teachers stupid, I'm calling the school system stupid. Loads of teachers agreed with the message
[Fine Brothers]: So, do you agree with his statement?
[Malcom]: Not the overall statement like "Don't stay in school!"
But I get is as far as who is one outlet of knowlegde source
[Dave]: The problem is that there's a lot of information out there
In order to get what that guy was after you would have to have kids in school for 12 hours a day
[Dave]: You would not need to have kids in school for 12 hours a day.
You would be able to remove tons of the pointless stuff and not have that as mandatory and fit it in easily
[Reacting Parent]: I think it's important. I think we need to offer kids more in the way of technical education
like vocational education
[Reacting Parent] We do focus a lot on testing and not so much on real life applications
so our kids end up really confused when they graduate
[Dave] I've had tons of comments from people who are in the same boat as me who
had teachers that say they teach things because it's "for the test" and giving no context for why it's useful
[Margarita]: I didn't know all the stuff that I wish I would. I learn it from my kids now
The school never prepared me for that
[Dave] Now there's a great example of why people who say "parents should teach you this stuff" is ridiculous
'cause not all parents have been educated about these things
[Adiaha] They didn't prepare me how to get a job. I don't remember the class "How to get hired"
Don't remember that class!
[Dave]: The state education's making eh getting enough money from our taxes eh to be able to provide more
than what they're providing right now
[Reacting Parent] There's plenty of time to teach kids .. ah .. how to be good citizens and how to
contribute to the society and the communities around them [Fine Brothers]: TRUTH! [Dave]: TRUTH!
[Fine Brothers] Other people would say that's the school is for academics and the responsibility
lies with the parents for life lessons and things of that nature. Do you agree with that statement?
[Reacting Parent] I think it's a partnership
I think there could be a balance to it. You can't just let the schools teach them everything
[Dave] So what about people who don't have parents or people whose parents where not taught because
they were in the same crappy education system growing up.
You can't rely on parents at all in any way. You're gonna make sure that the people who don't have
parents who care are also taken care of
[Fine Brothers] So do you think that your children are properly prepared for everything in the world
off of their schooling?
[Margarita]: Yes, I do
[Marc] I hope so
[Reacting Parent] No
[Adiaha]: No
I love how resigned she sounds. Well, I hate it. It's actually like horrific for the entire generation
but it's also pretty funny
[Dave] There are some things that you are not gonna be able to teach children by talking to them
They're gonna have to be put into it
[Dave] Totally agree with that. I bet you tons of the kids that are currently diagnosed with ADHD
just learn better if they're moving around rather than being stuck in the same place the entire time
[Fine Brothers] So back to the video, he decided to call his song "Don't Stay In School"
What do you think of that choice of the title?
[Dave]: Here we go [Reacting Parent]:Oh, I hate it
I hate it
Gives a wrong message to some kids that say "Ey, why should I stay in school when I can learn this outside of school?"
[Dave]: Most kids didn't think that from the comments
[Malcom]: He's just being over the top. Every kid knows you have to go to school
[Dave]: I think people really underestimate how reasonable kids are
They know that learning things is gonna be helpful, they just don't want to learn pointless things.
[Adiaha]: I think it has kind of a shock value. It's just like "What do you mean don't stay in school?"
It's just so - you know - you want to click on the video just to know what the hell he's talking about
I want my...my own kids to watch that video. I'm gonna search for that one and I'm gonna show it to my kids today
[Dave]: It's okay because I'm pretty sure after seeing it, it wasn't really saying "Ditch out of school"
[Fine Brothers] So this was made by a young person that started a whole conversation about education between
both students and adults. Are you aware that these types of deeper conversations end up happening
thanks to a YouTube video?
Not at all! I've been fighting with my daughter over YouTube
I love that side of YouTube. I'm actually now thinking we could just like educate our students more with
that [Dave]: Definitely
[Fine Brothers]: What is something you think should change in the current education system
for kids that you think will help them match into the real world?
[Marc] More real life situations kids should be prepared for
Maybe they should put something that's life skills
[Malcom] That whole life class, I think that's super important
[Reacting Parent] I think their senior year should really be a chance for them to start to explore a career
I wish there was just a little bit more leeway, kids don't all learn the same
They don't wanna open your dusty books but at the same exact information and facts
were put in a different way I think they're more open to it
Let's leave our obsession with competing with the world
over test scores. We have more scientists than our society. Let's focus on creating those people
not...not testic as in this country
[Dave]: Girl, you know what it is!
Yes! That was fricking awesome!
I am kind of disappointed that there weren't more hair hate comments
But ok, I'm surprised that pretty much all of them agreed that there was like some sort of lacking
aspect of school, considering very little is done about it
I'm just really happy. I'm really happy that this message is going to millions more people, potentially
Ehm ... thanks to the Fine Brothers
Because ... oh thanks to the Fine Brothers and thanks to you for all banding together and suggesting it to them
There was some really good points at the end there about
suggesting ... preparing kids for careers in their final year
and uagh ... I'm just really happy. I'm just really happy.
I'm struggling to make a lot of sense but thank you Fine Brothers for making this
and thank you, parents, for being so considerate
and only one dude, what was his name, the dude who didn't like the hair
Malcom didn't like my hair but Dave thought it was cool so ... all good
I'm really excited to see where this goes ehm ... I'm definitely working on making more videos at the moment
Well, I've been struggling lately to be motivated, I've been working on research
for the next videos I'm doing in a kind of series for Don't Stay In School
and ... crap ... there's tons of studies that totally refute what's going on with the current system
I'm making sure I got as much air-tight research as I can possibly find before I go ahead and make this video
because I want it to be really really useful
I want this to be basically the thing that the education branch of the government
should have made a video about and educated everyone on
Hopefully, this next video will be really really useful. Thanks so much again and cheers for watching, have a nice day! UAAAAAAH