SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. – We’ve heard reports that Common Core is causing anger and frustration among parents and teachers across the nation – but laughter? That’s a new one to us.

But that’s exactly what happened during last week’s meeting of New York’s Saranac Lake Central school board.

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports Superintendent Diane Fox had board members laughing in disbelief when she told them of a Common Core-aligned English unit about early world civilizations suggested by the state.

By the end of the state-suggested unit, first graders should be able to locate “Mesopotamia on a world map or globe and identify it as part of Asia” and to “explain the importance of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the use of canals to support farming and development of the city of Babylon,” Fox told the stunned board members.

“I’m not making this up,” Fox laughed.

Member Terry Tubridy quipped, “That alone could be a thesis.”

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