The problem is that kids cannot be standardized. They are individuals who learn things differently.
Common core is very big on cooperative learning, and it’s driving one of my daughters crazy. She’s a junior, and she’s not learning anything in history this year.
She has speech and communication problems. She can’t handle being in a noisy classroom. She can’t hear well, and she can’t communicate well.
She’s exhausted after history.
She does great in normal classes with a teacher that lectures, reading, and doing normal homework.
My other “normal” daughter also hates the common core history class. She wishes she had taken AP History. She’s gifted and she hates the group work because she gets stuck with kids who are not as smart as her.
Most are master teachers with years of experience in their field of study, but they are being forced to combine other fields of study into them. One teacher within 3 years of retiring is doing so in June, with the knowledge that she will lose her medical benefits.