POLICE MEET GEORGIA PARENTS OUTSIDE SCHOOL FOR OPTING CHILDREN OUT OF STATE TEST

Breitbart ^ | April 17, 2014 | by DR. SUSAN BERRY

[VerySadAmerican]

The same people who bitch about bullying in schools do things that makes the entire class into one big bully over ice cream. This country has lost it’s mind.

[bigheadfred]

Melissa Harris-Perry

Malicious Hairy Parasite...there...fixed it

[FreedomPoster]

Thanks, will look at that later when I have more time.

Nancy lives about a mile away, FWVLIW.

[PhiloBedo]

I have one, because I needed one and after lots of dough and going through several incompetent, lazy lawyers, I one that was golden. I realize he may be in court or with another client, but at least I can inform him of the situation and wait for him to call or show up.

[ronnyquest]

"Freedom exists no more, period."

That is a fact.

[Girlene]

So you don’t have to memorize multiplication tables or addition/subtraction? That’s insane.

[prof.h.mandingo]

Here is one book that is pretty good. It is a little esoteric so be prepared. “the story killers” by Terrence O. Moore. He teaches at Hillsdale college.
There are tons of information out there.
I have taught for over ten years and have seen some really stupid things come down the pike. This is by far the most damaging.
Point one: Common Core has never been tested anywhere. There are no studies as to if it will work or not.
Point two: It is still not complete. They are still working on it.
Point three: Read up on what a Lexile is. Books are “read” by a computer and then assigned a Lexile score. The computer counts the number of words per sentence and the length of the words. They then spit out a complexity scale score. You get idiotic results like the Grapes of Wrath being suitable for 2nd grade based on the Lexile score. The Common Core site even admits there are “problems with these Lexile scores”, it cannot handle poetry.
I can't stress enough this is horrible.
The person who lead the team that composed the standards for English has NEVER TAUGHT IN A CLASSROOM.
It gets worse but you need to educate yourself and your friends to fight this tooth and nail.

[Girlene]

Thank you.

[wastedyears]

It hasn't even been tested? It went straight out to destroy children?

[Grampa Dave]

BOL

A few years ago one of younger relatives while in the 5th grade became the village math dummy.

His parents, both very sharp in math, couldn’t figure out what had happened.

On a suggestion from my wife, they checked with the principal and found out in 5 years of school, their son had been exposed to so called 3 math systems, and the last one was what you showed.

They got him into an after school math class. In two months his math teacher was out getting tests from 2-3 grades ahead of his class as he had aced all of the tests for his class. That year he was asked to join in the math Olympics.

Since then he has gotten straight A’ in math and has been performing at least two years ahead in math.

Later, his two year older sister told her parents that the so called math expert teacher at that school was her home room teacher that year. Often, when this girl went in early to her home room to study, her teacher would be crying. The teacher was not able to spot the pattern or trend to explain how to get the answer. This girl would then teach the teacher how to see, explain and use the pattern.