How to make students hate poetry

[a2zmom]

Apparently on Texas' state assessment reading test, for both the 7th and 8th grade test two different poems are printed for students to answer multiple choice questions. The questions are so poorly thought out that the author of the poems in question had no idea what the answers were

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[kita0610]

It's a circle. Repubs WANT a country of uneducated zots. Critical thinkers do not elect Clownface Von Fuckstick and his merry band of fascists.

[a2zmom]

I agree.

But it's even worse. You get lunatics almost killing people in a Washington pizza parlor because they can't tell truth from BS.

[kita0610]

See, I'm not sure I agree with that conclusion. Crazy people are gonna find a reason to shoot people if they wanna shoot people. Like the asshole at the Ft Lauderdale airport- the right wing press is trying to spin it that he's ISIS. He's not fucking Isis, he believes the CIA is in his brain telling him to join ISIS. He's a NUT. And if it wasn't ISIS, it would be something else.

[a2zmom]

That;s different. The guy in Florida is mentally ill. But the pizza shooter most assuredly was not. These are the people who subsist on a diet of hate radio and conspiracy web sites and they cannot tell truth from fiction. If you talk to them, they will tell you that WaPo, the NYT and every other major news outlet prints nothing but lies.

These are the people who believe that the CIA, the FBI and every other intelligence agency we have are incompetent and of course Russia would never hack us.

These are the people who will gladly let Trump turn this country into an autocracy.

[kita0610]

Ok, I'll read more about the guy.

You're not wrong on the rest though. We are headed into the badlands.