The ObamaCore is worse than stupid, though. They plan to replace the classics with excerpts from the classics, along with excerpts from government bills, executive orders. directions for putting together a swing set or some other household item. It will be a smattering of everything and the mastery of nothing. Kids will not learn to LOVE learning and reading. The will learn to be functionally literate, period.
Actually, on another topic, one of the things that gives me chills is how often I talk to other English teachers and get no sense that they actually love books or literature or teaching or anything. They seem to approach the job like an accountant, and they hand out whatever short story the pacing plan offers, and photo-copy whatever worksheet the most recent concept lesson plan created for them, and kind of drift through the day with a total lack of passion. I can't tell you how many teachers I've asked "What novels do you like to teach?" and they get very vague, and kind of "hmm... well... uhm... we did... I think it was..." and I just get freaked out. I can rattle off every book I've ever taught, and when, and why, and what it related to, and what movies we saw, and in what order...
But again, this is not a Common Core issue. This is a "people going into education because they heard they'd get summers off" issue.