Posted on 03/11/2015 5:03:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The California Board of Education has suspended the state’s school accountability system for one year to give teachers and students time to adjust to new standardized tests aligned with the Common Core standards.
The board voted at a Wednesday meeting in Sacramento not to produce an Academic Performance Index for the 2014-15 school year. The index uses student results on statewide tests to rank schools and to identify those that need improvement. …
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Hopefully, our last youngest relative in public schools, will be accepted at an excellent private highschool this month.
Hopefully, our last youngest relative in public schools, will be accepted at an excellent private highschool this month.
Sure, if they’ll just explain using Common Core to subtract 297 from 585 .....
Get YOUR children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!
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Well, I would check first to see what curriculum they are using. Many private schools across the country have adopted common core. Since the SAT and the ACT are already aligned with CC standards, these schools are seeing it as a necessity.
Many private schools follow the Common Core program even if they say they don’t or call it by a different name.
Be cautious!
And....tomorrow every California teacher and principal will willingly go to work and implement this evil. They do it for money. No one is holding a gun to their heads forcing them to do this work.
Every other American has figured out how to make a living without hurting kids day after day. Teachers could, too, but they like the money, the generous vacations, and the pension.
Thanks for the heads up.
This private school has nothing to do with the core crap.
At 15-20 $k per year for a student, parents don’t, put up with that bs.
Please remember that nearly every teacher in this nation, both private and government schools, were trained by flaming Marxists in our nation’s colleges of education.
Private school?
Be cautious!
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