We warned you right wing nuts that it was traumatic to hold children to minimal academic standards in arithmetic and English ... and you didn't listen ... and now look what you went and done!
I just returned from a meeting about “common core” at the local middle school....the Principal and cohort were good little propagandists....
Rotten (er, Common) Core makes the little children sick!
From what I’ve seen, Common Core seems to be more of a psychological tool to push kids into reliance on the teacher and other “authority” figures.
I struggled enough with legitimate learning but the stuff they’re dumping on kids now would have made me suicidal by the 8th grade.
Funny, it has the same effect on the parents too.
“Many teachers and school administrators hate it because, they say, implementation has been rushed and teachers have had no input concerning the material to be taught or tested.”
Sounds like Obamacare.
It is very important for the proponents and designers of Common Core (like Bill Ayers) to make sure they cram as much information as possible into the kids making them perfect little communists. The dream of their Marxist paradise is just around the corner, dontchaknow?
One day, kids are going to start acting out all those songs we used to sing on the bus as kids.
Mine Eyes have seen the glory
Of the burning of the school
We have tortured every teacher
We have broken every rule
We broke into the office and
We hung the principal
Our troops are marching on
Glory, Glory Hallelujah
Teacher hit me with a ruler
Shot her with a .44
And she fell to the floor
And she ain’t our teacher no more.
Thanks to the unions and tenured losers who teach kids nothing.
I've had two experiences like that and involving the "Educational Testing Service" of Princeton NJ and, granted that was a long time ago, these Common Core stories have a terribly familiar ring.
The most egregious case occurred while taking the Graduate Record Exam. The math part of the standard test involved paragraphs with several questions based on each paragraph and one of the paragraphs was totally ambiguous and all of the math majors who took the test when I did said the same thing. You could flip a coin as to which way to interpret the fricking thing and if you then worked all the questions logically, you either got them all right, or all wrong. Some people actually hedged their bets and worked half the questions as if the thing read the one way, and the other half as if the other.
Al Franken makes kids vomit and pee their pants, too.
M4L
In modern math that is emm forr ell
It Makes me PUKE my guttd out and myG-kids aren’t even school age yet!
Most posters here have already identified the problem. It isn't that the kids are stupid or lazy, it's that the test is probably designed so there is no correct answer, and this is what is causing the confusion and visceral reaction in the kids.
I'd say the test is working EXACTLY as intended.
Common Core is not about “minimal academic standards in arithmetic and English”; it is a propaganda vehicle of the left.
Sorry, I don't buy this. As much as I hate Common Core, school children have been taking standardized tests for as long as I can remember.
If I had Children, I would never let them past the front door of a Public School.
Maybe the kids should toughen up a little.