I would suggest this...once these kids start to hit college-level math courses, and are told that they need a pre-college course (maybe even two)...which have no pay-back for their degree, they will begin to question what really happened in high school.
I read a piece where a parent spent the past year trying to help their kid in some junior high school math class. The class-work being brought home was hand-out material from the teacher. The parent eventually went to some PhD math friend who examined the take-home work, and they just started laughing. The word projects and diagram requirements were not designed by someone with advanced math capability. It was marginal material and should have been thrown out.
I might go and suggest that the people ‘selling’ Common Core...just weren’t prepared for the delivery of the idea.
“I would suggest this...once these kids start to hit college-level math courses, and are told that they need a pre-college course (maybe even two)...which have no pay-back for their degree, they will begin to question what really happened in high school.”
They certainly should. They have a high school diploma, which requires a level of math needed to start college...and they get to college TOTALLY UNPREPARED.
Still don’t see any evidence people are putting this together, though.