‘Really Spooky’ Poem Praising Common Core Allegedly Recited by Dozens of 5th Graders

yahoo.com ^ | August 9, 2013 | Erika Ritz

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Full Title: ‘Really Spooky’ Poem Praising Common Core Allegedly Recited by Dozens of 5th Graders at School Ceremony – Read It Here

A substitute teacher in North Carolina recently sent Glenn Beck a copy of a poem that she claims roughly 80 fifth-grade students recited for their promotion ceremony (like graduation) at a school near Raleigh. Glenn Beck Reads 5th Grade We Learn More With Common Core Poem

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The poem does not, as some might expect, celebrate school being done for the year, friendship, memories, or anything of the like. Instead, it praises the virtues of the controversial "Common Core" education initiative.

The poem is titled "We Learned More With Common Core," and the phrase is repeated over and over.

It reads:

Text genre, features & theme to explore

We learned more with common core.

Fractions, decimals, journal prompts galore

We learned more with common core.

RUNNER & CUBES are strategies for

Learning more with common core.

Vocab words like (clouds, organs, force), & omnivore

We learned more with common core

Economy, government, Revolutionary war

We learned more with common core.

So many new concepts to explore

We learned more with common core.

"That doesn't sound like you're indoctrinating kids at all!" Beck's co-host Pat Gray said sarcastically on radio Friday. "Like it's Soviet Russia? No, not at all!"

The teacher who sent the poem to Beck said she was alarmed by what she saw, and asked him to alert his audience about what is going on in our schools.

[Yaelle]

I don’t want to think much more
Except what I learned in common core.
Why did government make it for?
To teach me only a common core.
I don’t want the half of it.
School so dull it makes me spit.
If I can rap, I’m on top of it.
Bein’ brainy just don’t fit!
Don’t want to stand out one bit,
The whole thing’s a pile of sh**.
Less is, less is, less is more.
Don’t push my brain past common core.

[LucyT]

Check out article and # 14.

Thanks, Whenifhow.

[BenLurkin]

Limerick ping

[Maudeen]

If you think this is creepy, wait until they unleash the “big data base” on all kids that tracks them from the get go and ultimately can be shared from district to district. state to state and with who knows who. Michelle Malkin wrote about it. Parents don’t have a clue.

http://michellemalkin.com/2013/03/15/time-to-opt-out-of-creepy-fed-ed-data-mining-racket/