You guys are all missing the big picture here. It’s not whether this material is 1st Grade appropriate, obviously it isn’t, or whether it’s good material - the big problem with this “Common Core” stuff is that it is a Federal Curriculum!!
This is the first federal generated curriculum. In spite of all the homeschooler advocates dissing public schools, this Common Core crap is the first federally generated national curriculum! So, it doesn’t matter if it is good stuff or not - the Federal Government should NOT be generating curriculum.
And another danger is that this “Common Core” curriculum is being adopted by many private schools, as well as many Catholic private schools.
Some state governors are rejecting this Common Core for that very reason. You need to contact your state governor and legislators, your private schools, even Catholic schools and tell them to reject this stuff no matter how “good” or bad it is. It must be rejected because this is, for the first time, a curriculum that has been directly generated by the federal government. Each state previously defined its own curriculum for the students of their particular state. It was voted on by their state’s legislature and implemented by the local school boards (who also had a say in the curriculum).
This is by-passing each state’s control and passing it directly to the federal government. This is a horrible development that must be stopped by each governor and each state’s legislature. It is a Trojan horse of the worst kind. Previously the federal Dept of Education indirectly influenced state curriculum through the disbursement of federal money, but now this is direct control. This truly is federal indoctrination on a direct, no holds barred level.