[Fai Mao]

The real reason to do this so that parents do not see the curriculum

It lowers the stress of the leftist administrators

[Jim from C-Town]

Boy that is the truth.

The new common core math is an abortion and not in the way that the Leftists view abortion.

So Stupid! Makes kids NOT want to get involved in math.

[98ZJ USMC]

The real reason to do this so that parents do not see the curriculum

*ding .. ding .. ding*

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The real reason to do this so that parents do not see the curriculum

I doubt this - too many parents don't even care what the curriculum is.

The reasons are:
(1) Eliminate homework so it can't hold down grades and get in the way of social promotions. The fewer objective criteria there are, the less anyone can object to a school sending some illiterate kid on to high school from middle school.

(2) Lower work load on public school teachers - preparing and grading homework cuts into time which could be spent on Democratic Party lobbying.

[Slambat]

“The real reason to do this so that parents do not see the curriculum”

Could be. I wouldn’t doubt it. The whole point of public
school is to train kids to show up on time, do meaningless
tasks without question and think the way they want them to
think in preparation for the job market. Making good little
workers to be used to create wealth for the state chosen
elite. The ones who cant cut it in the private sector go
to the public sector, that would be the unemployable typical
government worker. Nothing is taught in public school about
entrepreneurship or self employment.

[BobL]

“The real reason to do this so that parents do not see the curriculum”

You NAILED it. As it is, I never cared what the curriculum was because I knew it sucked. Math would NEVER be learned using what our public (and sadly, most private) schools now use, and reading is simply taught too late (they don’t actually teach reading until 3rd or 4th grade now...before that it’s their little Sight Word game that is totally useless, or worse). Not to mention that what little they do teach is now targeted to girls and minorities, rather than all kids.

So, as parents, you either take their education into your own hands, or watch them flail away. I chose the first option.