Two New York City public school teachers have launched a terrific blog.

Jennifer Hogue and Adam Bergstein have a great sense of humor and irony.

Right on the face of it is a countdown clock showing how many weeks (1), days, hours, minutes, and seconds left until King Bloomie departs the office of mayor.

In the latest, written on December 16, Adam confesses:

My name is Adam C Bergstein; I’m 43 and I suffer from lexile dysfunction, as do many men my age. How many times has the woman in your life curled up to you in bed, book in hand, and whispered cooingly into your ear, be my stallion psychometrician and fully arouse my lexile framework? Yeah, sorry, all that means is that she wants to count word usage and sentence length. With that data in hand, one can then compute a book’s inherent literary value by comparing it to every other book ever written with the same type of word repetition and sentence length. Yup, that is exactly what the geniuses that espouse the merits of the Common Core have given us. Dang, if we ain’t breaking down educational barriers in this, the twilight of the 21stcentury.
Jennifer wrote a poem, that starts like this:
There was an old lady who swallowed a bee
I don’t know why she swallowed a bee – perhaps she’s Michelle Rhee!
There was an old lady who swallowed a test,
With a bad taste, over-erased and hard to digest;
She swallowed the test to catch the bee;
I don’t know why she swallowed a bee – Perhaps she’s Michelle Rhee!
There was an old lady who swallowed a student;
How imprudent to swallow a student.
She swallowed the student to catch the test,
She swallowed the test to catch the bee;
I don’t know why she swallowed a bee – Perhaps she’s Michelle Rhee!
Read the rest on your own!
Enjoy!