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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core Poems for Students to Learn: "We Learned More with Common Core" vs "We Learn Less with Common Core Mess"

Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core Poems for Students to Learn: "We Learned More with Common Core" vs "We Learn Less with Common Core Mess":

Common Core Poems for Students to Learn: "We Learned More with Common Core" vs "We Learn Less with Common Core Mess"

Which Common Core poem do you want your child to learn?  Which poem would your school use?  Does your school have a choice? 



It was reported that some North Carolina 5th graders were to recite this poem about Common Core.  From glennbeck.com and Were 5th graders forced to recite "We learn more with Common Core" poem?:

According to a radio listener in North Carolina, a group of 80 5th grade students were allegedly forced to recite an indoctrination poem that hammered home just how wonderful Common Core really is. “We learn more with Common Core. Text genre, features and theme to explore, we learned more with Common Core.”  
Below is the poem the listener sent in:

WE LEARNED MORE WITH COMMON CORE

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.

 
Several anti-common core (aka reclaim local control) taxpayers/parents/educators who understand the common core propaganda (educational theory disguised as research based) penned a different poem about