Curriculum Critics Gifts

Good Luck Cards: Teaching Common Core.

"Like I could date a guy from Notre Dame."

"Is there any way I could get a dashboard instead of a report card?"

Toy Shops and Educated Children

"This is a test. This is only a test. IF this had been the real world it'd be your job you'd be fighting for, not a letter of the alphabet."

'The reason the core curriculum seems so ambiguous is that we dot really have a core curriculum.'

"We thought this was more realistic."

"What can I say? Second grade just hasn't lived up to the hype."

'I wasn't playing hooky -- I was fleeing the deteriorating public school system.'

'This is going really well. I did a great job organizing this lecture.'

"So basically you're telling us that you make the youngest of your species sit in a room for twelves years and that is an education. . . you're kidding, right?"

"I don't mind them counting the days 'til school's out, but I wish they wouldn't do it on their fingers."

Kate's first task as new principal was to right a number of wrongs.

Go to M.I.T., they said. You'll do great things, they said.

End school zone. Start unschool zone.

'My father says, these intelligence tests are biased towards the intelligent.'

'Remind me again, Dad. Why did you want me to get that college degree?'

"They make us learn reading, writing, and arithmetic to prepare us for a world of videotapes, computer terminals and calculators."

Cover Design for the Savoy (No. 7)- the Eternal Problem of Youth and Pedantry

Uni. Snowflake Library

Cash For Places - Penbroke College

'Going to school is NOT an abusive relationship!'

"What did I learn in school today...I learned I don't like school!"

"I won't do the 'What I did on my summer vacation' assignment. I consider it a privacy issue."

"Should I refer to it as 'Common Core'?"

'Take this back to the committee. Since this is a school I would like the mission statement to mention education.'

"What is the battle cry for homeschoolers?" Kids: "Go Home!"

"Why do I have to work hard at school? I can buy a degree on the internet!"

'Today I have dumbed-down philosophy, followed by dumbed-down chemistry and dumbed-down English lit.'

Phrenology head filled with National Curriculum instead of real knowledge.

"I don't want your teacher to think a kid with grades this bad....could possibly have a father who could read or write."

'Dad said that experience is the best teacher, so I cut school and went to the video arcade.'

"For the next few hours, I'll be bringing you info with no tainment."