Word has it that Pink Floyd member, Roger Waters, didn't write "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" just as part of their concept album The Wall. It was meant as an actual critique of his elementary school teachers.
From Songfacts.com:
He hated his grammar school teachers and felt they were more interested in keeping the kids quiet than in teaching them. The wall refers to the emotional barrier Waters built around himself because he wasn't in touch with reality. The bricks in the wall are the events in his life that propelled him to build this proverbial wall around himself - his school teacher was just another brick in the wall.
What a different tale would have been told had it been written about my elementary education in a rural school, just wanting to get through the day . . .
We don't need no tours of bakeries
Time ill-spent away from home
No dark rooms to yawn through filmstrips
Teacher, throw them kids a bone
Hey, teacher, throw them kids a bone
All in all it's just like sitting out in the hall
Try to crawl to just another grade in the fall
When you're tall, you'll get to go and shop at the mall
You'd never know I had a crush on my 2nd-grade teacher, Mrs. Hunter.
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