Posted on 08/20/2014 3:26:23 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Support for Common Core educational standards has dropped as awareness of the program has spread over the past year, new polling finds.
Among Americans who have heard a great deal about the standards, just 33 percent support the standards while 59 percent oppose them, the annual PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools reveals.
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lol . someone just told me that VA has done it again. dumped a couple thousand record of vets they did not seem.
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It doesn’t matter that just 33% support them. It matters WHICH 33% support them. And the same for everything else in the USA today.
Since math and readling/language arts portions of Common Core have met with disdain (unexpected!), the science portion of the Common Core test has a different name entirely: Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Although they are trying to remain below the radar, it IS the science portion of Common Core.
Excellent!
It is rare for a parent to struggle through a year of elementary school Common Core math lessons and not hate it. I actually yelled at my eight year old son that yes, I oppose it, but it is still his homework, so we have to hate doing it together.
The teacher last year tried to tell me that some parents just don’t get the terminology or concepts, and that it is easy to struggle when it is unfamiliar. I explained to her that as two engineers, with a husband who tutored everything from algebra to Calculus 3, and I tutored elementary math to pay bills in high school and college, any difficulty with an eight year old’s homework is the presentation and structure - NOT the parents.
AKA, her default answer was to politely say parents were dumb.
My eight year old had assignments ranging from algebra (but not structured as X squared = 25 find X) to complex word problems that made you wonder what exactly it was asking to “explain the reasoning” and a failure to say something the teacher deemed reasonable was an F. A math problem with the right answer was WRONG. We resorted a few times to “the calculator said I’m right” or “my mom explained it” or “I thought it out in my head with lots of words” to just get through the section.
And I know many parents who feel the same way, which is why both my oldest’s middle school and younger one’s elementary have left common core.
Parents with a high school education are aware that common core is ridiculous but they have a harder time rejecting the contempt you encountered from the teacher(s) because they don’t have the credentials, they just have common sense and intelligence and that is indeed enough, unless you are a common core guru.
I do feel this is a key part behind common core - to portray “state defined school education” as “smart” and parents as “dumb” in order to direct the younger generations to respect and adopt state directives as more enlightened than the previous genertion (their parents). Hence it’s necessary to learn a new vocabulary just to face homework.
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