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‘Really Spooky’ Poem Praising Common Core Allegedly Recited by Dozens of 5th Graders
yahoo.com ^ | August 9, 2013 | Erika Ritz

Posted on 08/09/2013 4:08:53 PM PDT by ransomnote

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: common; commoncore; commoncorepoem; commoncoresong; core; education; indoctrination; schools
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1 posted on 08/09/2013 4:08:53 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

Imhotep...

...Imhotep...


2 posted on 08/09/2013 4:10:37 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: ransomnote
Bill Bennett thinks Common Core is a fine idea. Nothing wrong with it at all.
3 posted on 08/09/2013 4:10:50 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: ransomnote

So much more they could do with this poem.

Let’s get our rave on
while singing the praises of Trayvon

I’m going home to tell my mama
How lucky we are to have obama

I really hope that one day
I’ll be able to say I’m gay

And I’m just getting started!


4 posted on 08/09/2013 4:11:25 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: ransomnote
Last I heard former Ed Sec Bill Bennett thinks Common Core is a fine idea. Nothing wrong with it at all.
5 posted on 08/09/2013 4:11:47 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: ransomnote

This entire curriculum is a bore

With the things I learned with common core.


6 posted on 08/09/2013 4:16:33 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

LOL / Thanks for the laugh.


7 posted on 08/09/2013 4:17:12 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: ransomnote

Ah the collectivity! More important than anything in life!

The purpose of the chanting is to indoctrinate the kids with the thought that “common core is good” and to pass that thought on to their parents.


8 posted on 08/09/2013 4:18:44 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is contrary to human nature. Promoting liberalism comes from a strong hatred of self.)
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To: ransomnote

You may as well bring back Ebonics.


9 posted on 08/09/2013 4:19:57 PM PDT by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: ransomnote

I have a bigger problem with that piece:

It’s just not a very good poem to begin with. I keep expecting to hear a line about the infamous Man from Nantucket. :P


10 posted on 08/09/2013 4:21:18 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: ransomnote

Creepy Obama Kids Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtGrp5MbzAI


11 posted on 08/09/2013 4:31:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Kriggerel

Nantuckett?!

From the Show Me state:

There was a young stud from Missouri
Who made love with astonishing fury,
..’til taken to court
..For his vigorous sport,
And condemned by a poorly hung jury.


12 posted on 08/09/2013 4:37:42 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

As far as I’m concerned, Bill Bennett is only allowed to publish and exist because he is part of the Hegelian Dialectic and works for the Leftists as he pretends to be for the Constitution/Christian Ethics. He sold his soul years ago. He is equivalent to Huge Hewitt. Wishy Washy apologists.

Common Core is pure Marxism and evil.


13 posted on 08/09/2013 4:52:43 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: ransomnote; LucyT

For some reason, the video didn’t appear on the yahoo page.

You can also see this on this link.

You really need to HEAR Beck and Stu perform this. It is worse than the Obama kids mentioned in post 11, because it is giving glory (worship, Kudos) to the curriculum, not a person, such as Obama.

Were 5th graders forced to recite “We learn more with common core!” poem?

http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/08/09/were-5th-graders-forced-to-recite-we-learn-more-with-common-core-poem/

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14 posted on 08/09/2013 4:57:47 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: 2banana

my teacher taught me to be a whore

with the sex lesson found in common core


15 posted on 08/09/2013 5:10:18 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

I read it in my Weekly Reader
That Barack Obama is Our Dear Leader.

If my parents are dissing Him,
It is my duty to turn them in.

My self-esteem grows more and more
Just by learning Common Core.


16 posted on 08/09/2013 5:17:13 PM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: ransomnote

We chant lots of Marxist lore
That we learned from Common Core


17 posted on 08/09/2013 5:24:20 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
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To: ransomnote

I wonder if that was an actual copy of the poem the fifth graders were handed by their teachers with the improper use of the “&” sign. It should be “and”.


18 posted on 08/09/2013 5:24:29 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (Qui pacem, praeparet bellum.)
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To: ransomnote

Barack Hussein Obama. Mmmmmm. Mmmmmm. Mmmmmm.


19 posted on 08/09/2013 5:42:03 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Goodbye America. Glad the majority of my years were spent during the good days.)
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20 posted on 08/09/2013 5:52:00 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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