Posted on 02/08/2020 12:03:25 PM PST by WmShirerAdmirer
(Video)This gentleman is very angry and he uses a lot of profane and vulgar language but he has a point. He helped his young nephew do his home work, all the answers were right, but the teacher gave the kid an F grade because he did not use COMMON CORE, and it didn't matter whether he arrived at the right answers. He got an F because he didn't follow "directions" and show on paper in detail the "Common Core" process or method with right, wrong or no answers at all, (Truth ?, that is what she told the uncle when he wanted to know why the boy got an F). See for yourself.
“One reviewer of an early draft of the Texas math standards, R. James Milgram, a professor emeritus in the Stanford University math department, said the standards were so similar to Common Core, Texas might as well have adopted those standards instead of creating its own.”
https://hechingerreport.org/texas-new-math-standards-look-whole-lot-like-common-core/
LOL! The vast majority of commenters on Reddit are clueless dopes.
Funny but seeing this reminded me of asking my Dad to “help” me with my fifth grade math (they called it “new math” in the late sixties) I knew how to do all the basics, add, subtract, multiply, divide, etc. ( I studied hard to learn that since I’m more creative and word oriented) but showing him the assignment and the so called process was greek to him. Now he was a businessman so he wasn’t some dummy, but he couldn’t help me. So I had to go into math everyday, getting Ds, struggling just to keep up until we had an older student tutor me.
Thus I got the impression that the kid genuinely needed help with the homework and the uncle and kid did not cheat, but you’re right it belongs on Reddit.
Teacher admits he helped write Common Core to end white privilege
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8Nr3_2724
I work in IT and was wondering if your son had an interest in cyber security. The industry is projecting over half a million jobs going unfilled this year. If so, I can offer some pointers / career options.
When we went to school, math was taught by rote.
Everyone solved similar problems on the board, and if a student was having problems with a concept the teachers would work on that concept and also assign other students to help.
If a student never got it then they repeated the grade.
Nobody failed in secret.
Now they teach using an absurd methodology, records are sealed, and many of them can’t solve a simple quadratic equation.
He has discussed that field as well as trying to find something with a major Defense contractor.
Any advice would be welcomed. Thank you.
I was mostly home schooled because my parents were missionaries but I did go to a local school when we were stateside. I was in fourth grade by their tests and so they were teaching long division. It was the most complicated thing I had ever run into. It was all guess work and circles. I could not get a handle on it.
My dad was home the week I broke down and cried. Give me a break, I was only seven.
Anyhow he sat down with me and taught me how to do division. It took about an hour. It made sense and gave me the answer to something that was driving me crazy which was what to do when something would not divide evenly. The teacher had told me not to worry, we would get to that later.
I flew through my worksheet the next day. And got a zero. Because I did not use those frazzling circles.
I showed the teacher how it worked and was told that his job was to teach me concepts and the meaning behind the problem, not how to get the right answer.
My dad went in the next day and I do not know what was said but I was taken out of that school. This was some forty years ago.
LOL!
That’s what I hear about public schools.
They don’t want the kids to get the right answer, they want them to follow directions.
For testing, they have to do it Common Core way or it’s marked wrong.
And then the teachers complain that the kids don’t think for themselves.
Sheesh......
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Just for the record, most teachers I know hate Common Core as well, but they have to do it because they are told to use it and they could lose their jobs if they don’t.
However, the guy is also right about the teachers attitude. I’ve met many teachers who have that same better-than-thou attitude.
While we’re on the topic, since many are still homeschooling occasionally, someone PM’s me and asks for advice on curriculum.
Do any of you homeschoolers have any input for low cost alternatives to online and public schooling?
COMMONCoreMath
What grade level?
I like Rod & Staff for the early grades in the subjects of math, English, phonics/reading, and penmanship. ABeka for history, science, creative writing, spelling.
Forgot to add that you don’t need to get teacher books for some of these subjects as you can be creative and save $$$.
Frank language is all jackboots understand.
I have never ( yes, **never**) met an academically successful child who has not been significantly homeschooled. This is true whether they attend an institutional school or are completely homeschooled. This is true even for the academically successful immigrant child. The immigrant parent enlists the help of older cousins, aunts, uncles, neighbors, or study clubs.
I confidently state that all academically successful children are homeschooled!
I am retired now, but my work brought me into contact with literally several thousand families.
I also used Rod and Staff for English,, reading, and phonics.
It’s very good, very complete and pretty inexpensive. It’s a no frills curriculum. I did use the teachers manuals for them as they had the answer key in it.
I Tried ABeka and would not bother with it again,, ESPECIALLY the history unless you are bound and determined to know the name of DL Moody’s song leader.
Their history is WAY over the top. The science was not so bad.
ABeka is not cheap though, nor is Bob Jones.
I used the old hardcover Saxon Math. If you can find that online, it’s well worth getting but you do also need the answer key and test booklet. It’s timeless.
I have heard the soft cover Saxon Math is not as good as the older stuff.
It’s been over 10 years since we homeschooled so I am no longer up on what’s out there.
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