The gifted students see right through that collection of low-IQ education types that perped this collection of intellectual abortions on us.
Libs have a real problem with real talent.
An attack on those that “won the genetic lottery”. (lib thinking)
Government Axiom:
Minimum Requirements = Maximum Achieved
Why? Because liberalism isn’t about producing positive results. It’s about FEELING like you are doing SOMETHING. And to the left feeling righteous about it trumps results.
I am really not a fan of common core and dread the day when it affects homeschoolers.
However, public schools haven’t been terrifically challenging for a long time. It is an institution, it is not realistic to tailor a curriculum for each student according to their abilities and interest; especially since teachers are required to disseminate information to the students. They have to teach to the middle and that is below what the better students could handle. Outside of math courses (challenging to me!) I felt disappointed in school, as though something were missing because it didn’t take much effort to succeed. I’m not that smart or capable, I’m just a bit above the middle. Common Core just lowers the standard even further.
I do not stand in a room at home and lecture my kids. They read the material and do the assignments, asking for help if they do not understand something. It’s pretty rare they ask for help. Some keep the pace that the curriculum sets, others find certain lessons easy and work ahead more quickly.
In this, they own their education in a way that can not happen in modern public schools. It is similar to what was done with McGuffey Readers way back in one room school houses. The teacher was not responsible for the student’s learning, he/she just listened to the student recite the lesson and let them know if they passed or needed to go back and work on it some more.
Dear Prof Jonathan Plucker [$150K salary plus beaucoup bennies]......if you truly are from Connecticut....you would have noticed decades ago, gifted/sped programs were eliminated. Geesh. Also many districts have eliminated art & music/band programs the few *hooks* that keep inner city kids interested in school.
we recently started homeschooling my son. He took a test to see wher ehe should be and the teacher immediately put him into advanced math.
He’d been so bored and frustrated with school, and now he truly is a much happier, pleasant 13 year old. He’s looking forward to doing 8th grade at home now too. Can’t believe the change!
Common Core = LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR.........................
I think it is because the failures are too blatantly obvious to deny and they are so prevalent that any discussion of Common Core from any side ultimately ends up in pointing out its failures whether someone means to or not.
Common Core fails gifted kids, kids with real learning disabilities but who are working especially hard to learn the material, and everyone who learns in even a slightly different way than what it dictates.
Get your children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!