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Dump Duncan Poetry Contest
  • bvaliantbvaliant
    Posts: 185

    There is now a Dump Duncan Poetry contest! Please submit a six line poem to this site.

    There will be a fifty dollar prize given out at the Occupy the DOE
    Rally in Washington to the best poem. So far there are two entries, one
    by Notorious Phd, the other by Anonymous ( not the hacker!). By the time
    we get to Washington the prize could be larger so please hand in those
    poems!

  • Mark_Naison1Mark_Naison1
    Posts: 2

    While public school kids pass through metal
    detectors,
    Sidwell kids study space and vectors
    While public school kids
    sit still for tests,
    Sidwell kids observe birds in nests.
    If you think
    this approach is flunkin'
    Help us get rid of Arne
    Duncan
  • Mark_Naison1Mark_Naison1
    Posts: 2
    Test the teacher, Duncan cries!
    Cuomo wants
    tests super-sized.
    Everyone's a didactic preacher
    Yet they ignore the
    hard-pressed teacher.
    When this absurdity has fully sunk in,
    Help us get
    rid of Arne Duncan
  • RealTeacher43RealTeacher43
    Posts: 1

    I Have a Dream


    I have a dream 

    that one day

    the voices of the educators 

    will hold sway.

    There will be excellent schools for both rich and poor,

    The first step is to show Mr. Duncan the door.


    K. Passalacqua

  • DaveGDaveG
    Posts: 1
    There once was a Ed Sec named Duncan
    From the air ideas he kept pluckin'
    He screwed up with this
    He screwed up with that 
    So for this he must be a flunkin'.
  • Angie_Villa101Angie_Villa101
    Posts: 1
    Meet Arne Duncan, the CEO of our schools,
    He was never a teacher, yet he's writing the rules.
    A well rounded schooling he claims is the best,
    But his Race to the Top is just teaching the test.
    So where, Mr. Duncan, are we all racing to?
    And what will the left behind children all do?





  • FirstGradeTeacherFirstGradeTeacher
    Posts: 1
    I do not like this Arne Duncan
    I do not like the idea of flunkin'
    Schools that will not follow blindly
    Into the depths that he so kindly
    Wraps in words to sound just right
    When all they are is a call to fight

  • Dru_MicnDru_Micn
    Posts: 1

    DUMP DUNCAN


    Dump Arne Duncan or help him change his
    mind


    His present course has public education
    in a bind.



    There is more to true learning than
    simply a test


    There is more than one way to become
    the best.





    Teach each child in their own way how
    to love to learn


    And high scores in life they will know
    that they can earn.





    D. Russel Micnhimer 2-23-2012    

  • anderscjanderscj
    Posts: 1
    We used to live under a grand illusion,
    That these places we call schools were places for learnin,
    And on equity, race, and and class inclusion,
    But then came along a secretary of education,
    Who whipped things up and caused such agitation,
    And showed us our purpose was only statistics.


  • LuciannaSansonLuciannaSanson
    Posts: 1
    Dump! Duncan! Democrats! Don't Dally! Don't Delay!
    Children's Charters-Choice-Co-Pay!
    Students Schools!-Segregated!
    Rich and Wretched-Interrelated!
    Public-Private- Corporate Play!
    Dump! Duncan! Democrats! Don't Dally! Don't Delay!


  • bvaliantbvaliant
    Posts: 185
    And the winner is......Angie Villa.  Congrats, Angie, and thanks to all the others who submitted.  This was good fun.
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