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10/31/2019

 
When comedian and television writer, Noah Garfinkel, shared a tweet with a remade version of the ABC song, people all over the Internet became upset—again. Garfinkel said the altered version is "life ruining."

A company called Dream English Kids produced the remix for its educational website with the goal to change the melody so children don’t learn the letters L-M-N-O-P as a word, “elemenopee,” like they have in the past. On one hand, people are adamant that classics should not be altered. On social media, memes, GIFS and comments like, “n-o” and “I hope they are jk” ran amok. Even one New York Times headline begged, "L-M-N-O-Please Not Like That" Supporters of the original version, which is set to the classic song, “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” feel like the rebooted version, that originally debuted in 2012, disrupts the integrity of the classic. Listen to the song in the link above. See what you think.

On the other hand, isn’t it true that if you always do what you’ve always done, you’re going to always get what you’ve always gotten: a society of students who grow up suffering literacy deficiencies? It very well may be “cute,” but is it wrong? Is it overthinking to remake a classic? Is it fun and children can learn the alphabet later? Who should we cater to? History or the future?

​The world has become a confusing place.
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KeAsia Harper
11/1/2019 09:51:00 pm

In my opinion I think its good that they are changing the song. Yes its true that its a classic but also true that it's messing up kids learning habit. If we continue to teach each generation the wrong way eventually we will have a non intelligent generation. And it will continue untill the generation just forget all about education. After that everything else will unfold because the next generations are the future.

Deja
11/9/2019 08:21:25 am

I agree even though i may not like the new song, it is not about how much i like it is about making the younger generation literate enough to understand what they are learning. I had my time to learn it so I wouldn’t want to stop them.

E Tyson 1 period
11/9/2019 09:07:06 am

I go along with what you are saying them changing the song is a good thing.I don’t think they man in harm by wanting to change it. I think that society as a whole
Is more woke now. who knows people probably wanted to change the song before now but never knew how to let their voice be heard so they didn’t do anything about it.

D Ford 3rd
11/9/2019 11:42:17 am

I agree with KeAsia because the future will have a better chance at reading with hundred percent accuracy even though I don’t like how the song goes its great with our younger generations.

Chyna Henderson
11/9/2019 12:50:42 pm

Definitely because the song is more understanding and catchier.. when students love to learn they will do so with passion and at the best of their ability also that will increase the passing rates as mentioned and their will be less illiterate people in the world

E Tyson 1st period
11/9/2019 03:15:19 am

As a society we shouldn’t have to cater to others but we do. But we as people worry about what others say so much that we cater to what other people set as norms instead of us being ourselves. The sensitivities of others shouldn’t effect ours lives we should stand up for ourselves and live our life how we want to.

Deja
11/9/2019 08:24:46 am

I agree today’s society is becoming very sensitive and entitled to keep things the way they are, but quite frankly change is not always bad and this is a prime example of that. Its the selfishness of keep our “childhood” intact disregarding the newer generation struggling to comprehend with declining literacy rate.

Chyna
11/9/2019 12:54:10 pm

Majority of the people do not caters to others because they don’t really care what they have to say but we shouldn’t let the sensitivity or that stop us living

Deja
11/9/2019 08:37:29 am

I believe it is good to acknowledge others feelings, however this is a prime example of when feelings should not be taken into consideration. Many of who are complaining are adults and adolescents that do not have to worry about the “ABC’s” anymore because we have it memorized. But can the younger generation say the same? There is a decline of literacy rates in American schools and it is still declining. Not even a increase for the past few years. Yet lets not fix this problem but preserve our childhood song because thats all that matter.

E Tyson 1 period
11/9/2019 09:00:41 am

I totally agree to what you are saying we should take people feeling into consideration.But I don’t see or understand the problem with them Changing the song It might had worked for our generation but who can say it will work for future generations even when the abc song was out I was thought it wasn’t combined and it was alone so to me it doesn’t matter

D Ford 3rd
11/9/2019 11:45:25 am

I would have to disagree because we aren’t here to please anyone on why the song have change.It will have results than before will the world on reading today.

D.Ford 3rd
11/9/2019 11:38:53 am

I think with them changing the song is a great thing for the younger generation today. The reason why I say this is because the society today aren’t reading literary with fluency.This generations today aren’t intelligent in reading so they tend to stumble on words.So with them changing the song for the future generations they will be able to comprehend on what they have read.Now with them changing the song our future generations will be able to read literary better than what we are doing now.

Chyna 3rd
11/9/2019 12:46:06 pm

I think we should cater to the future because the past is irrelevant. Although the past does model what the learning should be but as time changes history does as well so the learning should not be the same as it was 10 years ago and if we base ourselves off history we could never move on. I think they took it too personal and it’s honestly not that deep growing up I really did think it ...was elemenopee


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