Everybody knows that if you want kids to start learning, you must sing them a song about learning, with the word "learning" in it.

And if you want to energize the crowd, you have to somehow stick the word "energize" into the song, too.

And if you want everybody to love the Common Core, you make them listen to songs about the Common Core.

It's just like saying "sugar-sugar-sugar-sugar-sugar" many-many times over will make everyone think you're very sweet. Works every time!

With this in mind, Jenkintown Chronicle, the blog dedicated to the Common Core, has made this collection of 12 amateur music videos by teachers and students titled, The Common Core Café Music Fest.

Who's the coolest Common Core SOB? Post your comments and make your voice count!

Contestant #1: Very Common Core, folksy, upbeat, great hook, catchy, and super-sensible shoes, we like it!
Contestant #2: Bustin' a mean Common Core funky rhyme! Ooooh, watch out Macklemore!
Contestant #3: Get outta those dis-ag-gre-gatin' hoes, dawg! Jake An Elwood got nuthin' on Common Core! Shwing!
Contestant #4: A young folkster, Common Core sung meaningfully. We are feeling the wellness!
Contestant #5: A rap group mixing comedy and Common Core in a crazy mixed up mélange giving Contestant #2 a run for the money!
Contestant #6: A thoughtful rendition of "we are the Common Core" bringin' us right back to 1985. Makin' Quincy proud!
Contestant #7: Little kids makin' sweet rap music 'bout Common Core, this young rhymer got mad skills! Ssshhhh! Don't let his mom know he's rappin' to promote Common Core while at school, yo! Shhhhhhhh!
Contestant #8: Getting the lucky 8 slot are the seasoned veterans of Common Core open mic festival. Getting their Common Core rythm going! Watch out!
Contestant #9: This gal is ga ga great! We luv a little Common Core bad romance!
Contestant #10: Cute, sassy, and on the Common Core mark! The pre-K set will really engage deeply with this song!
Contestant #11: Whoa! Crazy classroom hijinx and Common Core booty shakin' madness!
Contestant #12: And our final contestant Common Core crushing it!

Here's a sample. See the rest here - The Common Core Café Music Fest

This musical site is most entertaining! Too bad I was not aware of this Jenkintown Chronical before I wasted EBT credits on an AM radio? Now I can practice my musical spoons techniques with some real musicians!

Captain Craptek - Jenkintown Chronicle is run by several concerned moms who are fans of the People's Cube and post our graphics. Their "Music fest" post was made in the People's Cube style and should be taken that way.

It is wonderful to see a young man in a hoodie (#7), not shot by a white hispanic, rappin' 'bout how it's time for Moe! ... This is the Moe, right?

Red Square wrote:
Captain Craptek - Jenkintown Chronicle is run by several concerned moms who are fans of the People's Cube and post our graphics. Their "Music fest" post was made in the People's Cube style and should be taken that way.

Watching this makes me want CC in schools. Why is that? Have I lost it?

Here in the fascist state of Texas our Rethuglican governor, Rick Perry, refused to join the glorious people's Common Core standards. Something about state sovereignty to educate the Texas Hitler youth without the shackles benefits of the federal government. This absurd move by the fascist governor means Texas will not receive federal Race to the Bottom Top funds from Dear Leader.

SICK! I tell you! SICK!

Before Common Core


After Common Core

Captain Craptek wrote:Watching this makes me want CC in schools. Why is that? Have I lost it?

Well. You HAD to go and make me watch that, didn't you, after I successfully resisted watching all of them from Comrade People's Director's initial post?

Now I feel like I have bugs crawling under my skin...

My compliments to the Jenkintown Chronicle - you folks have much stronger stomachs than I do!!

1781-1783
At age 14 and because of his fluency in French John Quincy traveled to St. Petersburg as secretary and translator for Francis Dana.

Just think of what he could have been with the benefits of public education and Common Core.

Next time craptek please be more judicious with your EBT or you will literally starve.
We will bestow cornicopia of delicious satirical blinis and borcht on you if you will end your tyrrany towards your loyal comrads and restore our glorious name.
We thank the community,
Jenkintown chronicle

ThePeoplesComrade wrote:1781-1783 2009 - 2017
At age 14 69 and because of his fluency in French John Quincy John Kerry traveled to St. Petersburg Leningrad as secretary of state and translator for Francis Dana emissary for our Dear Leader.

I Common Cored that for you, Comrade, and you're welcome.

Ollie wrote:Next time craptek please be more judicious with your EBT or you will literally starve.
We will bestow cornicopia of delicious satirical blinis and borcht on you if you will end your tyrrany towards your loyal comrads and restore our glorious name.
We thank the community,
Jenkintown chronicle

Consider it done. It is ironic that your parody is so satirical. My congratulations.

Sincerely confused,

Craptek

May I be so bold as to suggest that, now that we're all on the same page, we gather around the campfire this evening and imbibe massive quantities of beet vodka as we hold hands and sing all these glorious CORE songs together?

I'll bring a guitar.

R.O.C.K. in the USSA wrote:May I be so bold as to suggest that, now that we're all on the same page, we gather around the campfire this evening and imbibe massive quantities of beet vodka as we hold hands and sing all these glorious CORE songs together?

I'll bring a guitar.

An excellent idea. Perhaps after enough beet vodka shots we can up the ante on our lyrically gifted friends and extoll CC though interpretive dance.

A splendid idea, Comrade! While I have no doubt that - with a few notable exceptions - it will take significant volumes of beet vodka to get us there, that's never stopped us before. And I just KNOW that our progressive interpretive dancing will be fully and equally FORWARD!