I know folks with kids who are at their wits’ end trying to learn elementary level arithmetic via common core curricula. Parents have no idea how common core works and teachers actively discourage them from trying to help their kids learn math using the old, tried-and-true ways.
If parents can’t look at a problem and show their kids how to solve it—especially if teachers discourage assistance—then then you have the ingredients for a education disaster in the making.
I wonder how many illegals learned common core before breaking the laws to enter the country. I’ll bet their employers don’t care.
Absolutely! And speaking of all the illegal alien children in our schools, if the native born children are having problems with the cc curriculum, we can expect the outcomes for these children to be even worse.
Frankly, I expect that teachers themselves will be increasingly on the forefront of the opposition to common core because they will be held accountable for the negative testing scores, not the educational bureaucrats and politicians who foisted the curriculum on the country.