Common Core is going to make my autistic child unemployable

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You really do not understand the problem with the implementation of these standards? If they are so hard to implement, there is something wrong with the standard. Period.

I never said that I didn't understand the problem with the implementation. I do. But implementation doesn't have to do with the standards themselves. It has to do with who is producing the materials teachers use and the freedom that districts give teachers in developing their own materials. It has the do with the powers that be that are in charge of what tests and assessments will be used to judge schools and teachers. It has to do with the timeline of implementation.

It has to do with many factors, none of which have to do with the actual standards themselves. Read them. They are very reasonable expectations of what children should be learning.

Period.

Agree completely.

[Anonymous]

Common rotten core

[Anonymous]

Not a myth. States can opt out as Virginia has done.

It is a myth that classroom teachers had a lot of input.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Not a myth. States can opt out as Virginia has done.

It is a myth that classroom teachers had a lot of input.

How do you know this? That is my question.

Also, I have not heard Common Core opponents say that teachers did not have a lot of input. What I have heard them say is that teachers had no input.

[Anonymous]

How do you know this? That is my question.

Also, I have not heard Common Core opponents say that teachers did not have a lot of input. What I have heard them say is that teachers had no input.

Go read the history of how they were developed. Read about who was on the committees that wrote them. Almost no classroom teachers. I read it. That's how I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

How do you know this? That is my question.

Also, I have not heard Common Core opponents say that teachers did not have a lot of input. What I have heard them say is that teachers had no input.

Go read the history of how they were developed. Read about who was on the committees that wrote them. Almost no classroom teachers. I read it. That's how I know.

I've read that. I didn't perceive what you perceived. Could you please provide some specific links?

[Anonymous]

http://www.nga.org/cms/home/news-room/news-releases/page_2009/col2-content/main-content-list/title_common-core-state-standards-development-work-group-and-feedback-group-announced.html

By my count ONE classroom teacher on the "feedback" group for math. Please list all the other classroom teachers. Maybe I missed them.

[Anonymous]

That is ONE classroom teacher out of approximately 50 people. And, he was not involved in the writing--just the feedback.

[Anonymous]

I never said that I didn't understand the problem with the implementation. I do. But implementation doesn't have to do with the standards themselves

comical statement

[Anonymous]

Buy the Saxon Math book series and do that math at home. Common Core math is absolutely the most hideous math program on the planet. Could your IEP allow home study of math?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.nga.org/cms/home/news-room/news-releases/page_2009/col2-content/main-content-list/title_common-core-state-standards-development-work-group-and-feedback-group-announced.html

By my count ONE classroom teacher on the "feedback" group for math. Please list all the other classroom teachers. Maybe I missed them.

Thank you for the specific link.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Buy the Saxon Math book series and do that math at home. Common Core math is absolutely the most hideous math program on the planet. Could your IEP allow home study of math?

Common Core is standards. Saxon Math is a curriculum. Also, the Saxon Math curriculum now aligns with the Common Core standards.

http://www.hmhco.com/shop/education-curriculum/math/saxon-math

[Anonymous]

I never said that I didn't understand the problem with the implementation. I do. But implementation doesn't have to do with the standards themselves

So, if a tree falls in a forest, does it make a noise?

[Anonymous]

I never said that I didn't understand the problem with the implementation. I do. But implementation doesn't have to do with the standards themselves


So, if a tree falls in a forest, does it make a noise?

You'd probably understand better if you read the whole post, instead of cutting out one sentence and trying to mock what you do not understand.

[Anonymous]

You'd probably understand better if you read the whole post, instead of cutting out one sentence and trying to mock what you do not understand.

If a standard is clear, it should be easily measured. Clearly, the developers of the materials are having a tough time with this.