Do you know why?
Because Obama's Dept of Education has tied ALL Federal funding that schools receive at the state and local level to Common Core.
Posted on 03/14/2015 5:07:07 PM PDT by kindred
Karen Lamoreaux addressed the Arkansas Board of Education in December 2013 to discuss the negative effects of Common Core on the local students. Mrs. Lamoreaux said that she represented more than 1,100 parents, educators, and taxpayers of Arkansas “who have very serious reservations about the Common Core initiative.” The mother of three children accused the board of falling for the same empty sales pitch that Common Core would be a “set of rigorous, college-ready internationally bench-marked standards that prepare our kids to compete in a global economy.”
Mrs. Lamoreaux instructed the members of the school board to participate in a Common Core math problem by getting their pencils out.
Are you smarter than a Common Core fourth grader? Let’s find out. The problem is: Mr. Yamato’s class has 18 students. If the class counts around by a number and ends with 90, what number did they count by?
After restating the math problem again, Mrs. Lamoreaux asked if anybody on the board knew the answer. One board member answered “five” by dividing 18 into 90. Mrs. Lamoreaux confirmed:
You know why? Because that’s what makes sense, right? That’s the way we were taught to do it in the fourth grade level.
Then she held up a Common Core math lesson that teaches students to solve this problem in a different way.
This, however, is what the Common Core Standards expect our fourth graders to do. If they solve it in those two steps they get it marked wrong. They are expected to draw 18 circles with 90 hashmarks solving this problem in exactly 108 steps. Board members, this is not rigorous. This is not college ready. This is not preparing our children to compete in a global economy.
Mrs. Lamoreaux went on to say that students who were in the upper eightieth percentile or greater in the previous year are now getting C’s, D’s, and F’s on their report cards. With passion in her voice, Mrs. Lamoreaux told the board that she and other parents will fight to change this curriculum that is “dumbing down our kids.”
I encourage you to listen to us when we send you our emails despite the comments that were made by our chairperson here today. Our concerns are not based on hysteria or propaganda. They are based on fact and we are prepared to present those facts. Can you see the trembling in my voice?
She concluded her time:
This is not working. And it’s not what they told you it would be. We will save the privacy concerns and the testing concerns for our legislature. But when it comes to standards, that’s your ball court. And we need you to help us with this because this program is dumbing our children down. Thank you.
In February, Governor Asa Hutchinson announced his plan to create a 16-person Common Core review committee that will take another look at the state standards. Many parents like Karen Lamoreaux are pleased with that decision.
[Kathi K03/14/2015 at 6:27 pm
I am a 65-year-old whose SAT math score in the 1960s was 736 of 800. I was also one of the last classes who learned “the old math” before NYC schools introduced the first of what would become a series of “the new math” experiments. You remember “the new math”. It was responsible for generations of kids who had to remove their shoes to count above 10, and the phrase, “Why Johnny Can’t Add”. Common Core seems to be just another in the series of educational failures. Despite its claim to teach children an understanding of how things work with numbers, I see more and more children who are more and more confused about how to process mathematical ideas. The saddest thing to me was when I showed my confused and tearful teen-aged granddaughter how to quickly solve her algebra problems. She grasped the old math concepts the first time around. But, she said, still in tears, I can’t do it this way “because I have to show my work and the teacher will give me a zero unless I do it HER way. And I don’t understand what she is doing!”]
Tell me that the teachers don't have blame for their work in the dumbing down of American children in public schools, a scourge of education and moral teaching.
making CC supporting politicians do CC math...brilliant idea!
It destroys the normal intellect in favor of the two digit IQ crowd.
Don’t write CC in cursive because they’re not going to teach cursive anymore. Any more “improvements” and they’ll be making their mark instead of writing their name.
0bama and his merry band are doing everything they can to hurt America - even reluctant liberals are beginning to admit that he must be “not on our side”.
this common core is just another spear headed to the heart
[It destroys the normal intellect in favor of the two digit IQ crowd.]
And it destroys the parental input by intimidating and bullying children! Note;
[The saddest thing to me was when I showed my confused and tearful teen-aged granddaughter how to quickly solve her algebra problems. She grasped the old math concepts the first time around. But, she said, still in tears, I can’t do it this way “because I have to show my work and the teacher will give me a zero unless I do it HER way. And I don’t understand what she is doing!”]
You could tell that by who supports it.
OUTSTANDING post! Thanks. HOORAY Karen Lamoreaux! BTTT!
If there is a nincompoop brown or black out there then all whites must dumb down to that denominator...was that the idea behind this idiocy?
They don’t care about the smart browns and blacks? Or is that “educational privilege”?
Communist core.
Another comment:
GEORGE GIANOPULOS
@Joanna:
“Tennessee also opted out of Common Core but adopted state standards that mirror Common Core, use the same curricula and testing. It’s a farce and cover up. Better check up on what’s happening in Texas. The curriculum is produced by a UK firm, Pearson, that is owned by a majority of Muslim sheiks. The single largest share holder is Omar Gaddahfi’s son, as in Libya! 7th grade world history contains a 16 page unit on Islam, full of lies and distortions to make Islam look peaceful and enticing. Students are required to memorize the 5 Pillars, pray the Muslim confession of faith, practice a Muslim fast, even the steps necessary to become a Muslim. Try to present the Christian plan of salvation in a government school and see what happens. The ACLU is silent about Islam in Common Core or state standards!!”
A poster downthread said Perry outlawed common core in 2013.
I remember too that we were warned 50 yrs ago that everything was going to be metric and we had better start learning it and doing it or else....
a lot of problems have come up because are kids are using calculators for everything, digital watches instead of knowing how to read a circular watch...
I forget a lot of things but to my amazement I know our checking account number, numerous passwords, my credit card number plus the exp date and the 3 little code on the back....
can kids even remember things anymore?...do they even try....
when my youngest was in grade school she came home with a marked up quiz and I asked her about it..."oh the teacher said I was doing great because I know the concept"....not the numbers, or the math, nor the reason you do things, but she knew the "concept"..
that my friends is our problem...our younger generations have been taught that they really can do no wrong, that everything is acceptable...
New Math by Tom Lehrer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIWaJ0sy03g
the teacher will give me a zero unless I do it HER way —
I’ll bet the teacher can’t even do it her own way, she is ‘reading off the teleprompter’, i.e., teacher’s manual.
Run out of toes or calculator or something. I’m getting to be an old engineer. The kids just emit a low gasp when I work problems in my head while talking and get the answer in two decimal places before they can queue up their smart phone calculator.
My Dad was an old engineer. He taught me math and if my numbers were not neatly printed and neatly aligned I had to start over before he would help me. He taught slide rule IN COLLEGE! Yes, it was a class or part of a class in numerical methods. The slide rule was over 6 feet long on a big carriage that rotated it. I learned to use at least part of a slide rule before I started grade school. You had to be able to estimate numbers and place the decimal. I still carry a small K&E in the truck to check the gas mileage.
There is something even worse than “dumbing down” schools, and that is unnecessarily frustrating young students, Which is the number one crime of Common Core, closely followed by methodology which removes supportive parents from their children’s’ education.
Removing parents from the equation is the depth of stupidity. There is already an unfortunate lack of parental involvement in the education of kids. Common Core makes that situation worse.
Do you know why?
Because Obama's Dept of Education has tied ALL Federal funding that schools receive at the state and local level to Common Core.
Wrong. Mrs. L. should have told the board point blank the parents will campaign against each and every board member who does not change the curriculum immediately.
Does Sidwell Friends school teach CC?
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