Common Core? What's that? Louisiana residents say

The Times-Picayune ^ | March 31, 2014 | Danielle Dreilinger

[kingattax]

Awareness of new Common Core education standards remains low in Louisiana, a statewide poll shows, almost a full school year into the standards rollout and three weeks into a legislative session in which Common Core is a central issue.

Half of the respondents to the 2014 Louisiana Survey said they didn't know much about Common Core, with 29 percent saying they were not familiar with the standards at all.

"While controversies over the adoption and implementation of the Common Core standards have been heated, they haven't penetrated deeply into public consciousness," write researchers at LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication.

[kingattax]

Who dat ?

[bigbob]

That’s nothing, in Washington D.C. where our Fearless Leader plays golf, they call it Common Corps...

[Da Coyote]

Who dat say who dat?

[jeffc]

Makes you wonder why the feds want it to fly so low under the radar. People should never trust the government. It’s why we wanted to run our own back in 1776.

[jmacusa]

Why you don’t be saying dat?

[kitkat]

This is crazy! How could the people in Louisiana know so little about Common Core? Don’t their kids do any homework?

[Gene Eric]

Show me a state the knows “much” about Common Core.

[Hoodat]

[Jonty30]

I would say that some states do not pay much attention to the feds at all.

[PubliusMM]

Well, kitkat, the kids do the homework. It’s just that the parents don’t give two hoots in hell about it, as long as the kids aren’t under foot all day.

[BitWielder1]

It is suspicious that so little information was put out ahead of time.
If this was something that the states agreed on years ago, why was there so little in the media, so little information sent to parents? No feedback.
(Of course I know the answer, they tried sneak it on us and call it a Done Deal.)
If I hadn't read it in FR, I would hardly know about it.

There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now.

   - Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz before blowing up Earth in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[odawg]

Well, if you don’t have any kids in school, you wouldn’t. However, the ones who do, are livid, but so far it’s over the math—which is incomprehensible. Governor Jindal, some time back, ran some ads. First he smiled, the he said he was against the federal government meddling in local schools, then he smiled. Evidently, he thinks voters want to be smiled at. Last week, he said that Common Core should be “tweaked”. Common Core is his baby, and he is not about to admit a huge mistake.