Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Haiku from New York City school students and teachers

I found this rather brilliant haiku collection written by students and teachers from New York City, in response to the New York City's Department of Education's Schools Report Card. Most of them contains criticism against the school system, particularly agains NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and School System Chancellor Joel Klein. Here is a selection of the haikus:

A, B, C or D -
Who cares? It's all meaningless.
How existential!
-MDS



Bloomberg, Klein, Liebman
Masters of the universe
Have you ever taught?
-Anonymous 5:12 PM



Work harder or else
My kids are not a letter
A smile on its side
-Anonymous 11:57AM



I am too angry
to write a haiku today
they should all resign

-Leonie Haimson

You can download the whole collection at http://eduwonkette.googlepages.com/NYCSchoolReportCardHaiku.pdf


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