“I don’t go to school anymore”: who was the child who inspired the popular theme against the educational system of the Leusemia band and more secrets

One autumn afternoon in 1994, a telephone call attracted the attention of Daniel F.. On the other side of the line was one of his nephews, sobbing, asking him, please, to intercede for him with her mother so that she doesn’t send him to classes because “I don’t go to school anymore.”

The minor, who was about to turn six years old, was in the first year of school. He had fond memories of his time in initial education, but this new stage was unpleasant and discouraging. He went from love to rejection.

“”, narrates the vocalist of Leusemia, remembered eighties group, founder of the underground movement.

In response to the child’s request,

“I couldn’t do anything, that’s what his closest family is for. But I still had that rather bitter taste that my nephew is in those conditions and the only answer I found was to make a song that contains that cry of pain”, says the Peruvian singer-songwriter.

“It is not a song against the school. I wish there were many more schools than churches. It is an issue that calls for a new educational reform, a new way of approaching the educational system in order to give children the weapons they need to face the world and not overwhelm them with formulas that suddenly they will never use them“, Add.

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By then, . However, it didn’t take long for the eighties band to get back together. It was in 1995, after a pleasant and sincere gathering between Kimba Vilis, Raúl ‘Montaña’ and Daniel, in the underground bastion Mamani’s Pub.

“When we got back together, I told the guys that I had some songs ready and we went through them all clean. We didn’t predict much for that song because it was short and repetitive; but when we presented it at a concert in Barranco, people gave it their full support“, remember.

That screeching meeting of bass, drums and guitar lasting about three minutes, was part of “A la shit lo rest”, the second official album of the band and one of the best sellers.

“As the song is quite dynamic and has a lot of strength, it always goes forward, as soon as it came out it hit head-on. Almost 30 years have passed since we played it for the first time in Barranco and it still has the same effect. People ask for it, jump, sing, shout, above all the young people. The more mature ones like me only ask for it and listen”, he remarks.

“I don’t go to school anymore” became a kind of anti-educational anthem for Peruvian adolescents of those years, who were against the education system in our country. “In some way the song served for the boy to say: ‘I don’t like how they treat me, I’m a nobody, they yell at me, they force me to cut my hair’…. It was bursting in some way”, clarifies the national rocker after highlighting that, unlike his nephew, he did have a good school experience.

“I had a great time at school, I became friends with my teachers, I supported them in the 1978 strike (SUTEP’s First Indefinite General Strike), we shared attitudes and emotions. And he was good in the courses of letters, history, philosophy, art; but in science and mathematics nothing to do with it”, argues the musician.

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