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 Common Core for children to learn:

 WE LEARN LESS WITH THE COMMON CORE MESS

About rich literature we must guess
We learn less with the common Core mess.

Fractions, decimals; for these we press
We learn less with the Common Core mess.

Endless testing causes stress
We learn less with the Common Core mess.

Data mining we must address
We learn less with the Common Core mess.

Global warming we must bless
We learn less with the Common Core mess.

Fewer concepts - so much commonness
We learn less with the Common Core mess.

 

So much misinformation in the press

We learn less with the Common Core mess.

So little time spent in recess

We learn less with the Common Core mess.

Front loading curriculum causes undue distress

We learn less with the Common Core mess.

Mathematical equations get partial credit for a guess

We learn less with the Common Core mess.

Teacher training minimal at best

We learn less with the Common Core mess.

15% of Curriculum time is not addressed

We learn less with the Common Core mess.

Parents discouraged, parents oppressed

We learn less with the Common Core mess.

Little clear answers to our requests

We learn less with the Common Core mess.

Privatization in excess

We learn less with the Common Core mess.

Political process ignored/transgressed
We learn less with the Common Core mess.

As students we will regress
Because we definitely learn less with the Common Core mess.

Many thanks to the creative parents/educators for penning Common Core mess and  www.RestoreOkPublicEducation.com for its input.