Please check out this shopping catalogue of toys, fully aligned with the Common Core!
It might easily be confused with the real thing, so I feel impelled to tell you it is a spoof written by two New York City teachers.
My favorite: the plane built in mid-air while it is flying. Watch out below!
By next year, there might really be a catalogue just like this one, and it won’t be a joke.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
When you build a plane in mid-air, it crashes in the Andes and the survivors eat each other.
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My favorite is the jump rope.
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Oh, the Etch A Sketch! I’m tired of Pearson!
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I really liked the pack for the baby crib.
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My, my, the long queues I had to endure just to buy gifts for my godchildren!
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speaking of making purchases, i tried to buy reign of error tonight for a friend at barnes n noble — the clerk said there were 3 books in stock but couldn’t locate any of them — then he said he called 2 or 3 other stores to get them to send a copy over but they had the same situation going on over there … what is that all about? conspiracy to keep quiet the truth?
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Please help give NY State public school kids and their parents a present the grinch (aka John King) has stolen from them. Sign and share this petition to stop NYSED from sharing confidential information without parental consent and violating the privacy rights of students and parents. http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/protect-new-york-state
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Signed. And thanks for posting this, Allison!
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Thank you Mr. Shepherd. We would very much appreciate any help you might provide in sharing our petition and getting everyone to sign it. Thank you Diane Ravitch for signing it! We are truly honored to be fighting against the privatization of our children’s education along with you. Here is the link to the student data privacy petition http://bit.ly/18VBvX2 Info about our grassroots efforts in NY http://bit.ly/1gJRSxR We have been told to keep heat on all the powers in Albany, especially Governor Cuomo. His number is 518-474-8390 or email gov.cuomo@chamber.state.ny.us or Tweet @NYGovCuomo Thank you and happy holidays!
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Has anyone here purchased the new Achieve roboteacher yet? Model Achieve793jaRev6. Just pull its string to have it recite the scripted lesson on standard CCSS.ELA.RI.11.2a!
Better than a pimply TFA kid for replacing old-fashioned “teachers”!
And then there are the books of children’s classics, Common Core version, to read to your kids at bedtime.
Your children will THRILL to such soon-to-be classics as
“How the Narrator’s Point of View Affects the Description of Events in Paragraph 243 of Charlotte’s Web” (CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.6) and
“Inferences from Paragraph 4 of Chapter 12 of The Wind in the Willows” (CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.1)
Why bother with the stories when you can CUT TO THE SKILLS? After all they are what will be on THE TEST!
Ensure your child’s place in the Meritocracy by ordering your deluxe edition today!
This has been a paid advertisement of the Common Core Curriculum Commissariat and Ministry of Truth (formerly known as Achieve).
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