Short Standardized Poems

Haikus criticize
Bullies in critic’s disguise
Poets standardized...

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Third grader is braiding her hair in an elaborate way.
Not students are supposed to do on testing day.
I do not care, keeping my opinions about this test at bay.
Validity of this idiotic waste of time has plenty of frivolous fray....

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Teachers feel heat.
Standardized tests
So Boring
Breaks

Teachers feel heat
Principal evaluation
So Scary
Run

Teachers feel heat
Out of Control student
So Exhausting
Recruit

Teachers get told
Their job is easy
Nothing to do all summer
Try it....

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Sundance kid standing astride the darkened clouds
Freckles palling her lineless face,
She is a hero, in her cranium the goddess bows.
Down on earth she is out of place,
The clouds are standardized above our heads,
You think you feel and love but she 
Will keep smiling
Till your grey in the face....

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Some students finish standardized tests quickly
Others take elaborate amounts of time
My cousin Suzette always finished first
She filled in the oval bubbles with faeries and butterflies
Made elaborate designs that required all of the ovals in a row
If a teacher thought to look at her oval answer sheet she went ballistic.
Reporting her to my aunt, her mother, another teacher.
Luckily my aunt did not put any faith in these tests....

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They stack us with tests'
All the way up to our necks
Suffocating us to where we cant take a single breath
Stress is past our breaking points
No wonder all we do is guess!
They try to fail us because they want you to feel blue
Cant we just tell these things to shoo!
Have they ever thought of the children who cant do the standardized
But whom knows the material from head to shoe.
But now here we are
Failing away
All because these tests wont get the flu....

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Stop teaching! Stop teaching! Stop teaching!
What do we have to do to get this through your heads.
We want them to know how to take standardized tests.
I guess we will have to start grading you teachers 


We have discussed it. The committee of Non-teachers and I.
We have decided to issue you demerits on the stuff the state thinks is important.
Hey, are you listening? Then what is wrong with you?
It is all about circling bubbles, you fool. Stop TEACHING!...

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A means was hurriedly devised
To have their profiles revised,
A great deal improvised
And staff strictly supervised…

Also, a means to be apprised
Of Interview questions not surmised,
To have them earlier analyzed
For  minds to be better advised…

And what it should cost summarized
To have the inspector’s toilet standardized,
His official car customized
And reserved fruits liquidized!

All ahead of his notified inspections
With staff-dropping intentions....

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