- for public school teachers everywhere -
From the Common Cold has evolved the Common Snore.
It’s based on factors that we can’t ignore!
The children have collapsed from their chairs to the floor,
ill from “grade-level benchmarks” they’ll never adore,
standardized tests and rubrics. What a bore!
Arne Duncan and Pearson, his edubabbling whore,
have concocted a mess John Dewey would deplore.
With stuff this dull, it’s either sleep or roar!
We’re witnessing, people, the makings of a war.
The data infantry’s out on its virgin tour.
I’m down here in the trenches keeping score.
The dozing youth now tally ten million and four.
Yes, I’m strolling from class to class, from door to door,
accumulating hard evidence for
the soporific effects of the Common Core.
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