It’s OK (united) #1 #2 #3 departures from a critical reflection around dominant educational, social and political premises in the ‘West’. Appropriating the American national anthem and creating different lyrics for such music, the piece subverts ironically the founding principles of behaviors taken as normal, positive and correct. The whole piece is the result of three moments: the first as a collaboration with five children; the second as an experiment around the failure of the project in a high school setting; and the third one as the final achievement of a whole singing classroom. As author-performer, and simultaneously conductor-teacher, I appeal to an engagement with a learning that values uncertainty and doubt against pre-assumptions such as success, safety, or power.