Ghosts haunt the school curriculum. Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" provides a starting point for thinking about these curriculum ghosts. In the Preface, he states that he has "endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea". In this article, the author seeks to raise the ghost of an idea, and to have a bit of fun with it by using the methodology of "hauntology" to consider the specters of curriculum past, present and future that haunt contemporary schooling. She describes some of the features of the "Scrooge state" that haunt curriculum and education policies using the themes of the "ghosts" of "curriculum past," "curriculum present," and "curriculum yet to be."