Common Core is going to make my autistic child unemployable

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You should take a lesson in "close reading" that is require by the Common Core.

Race to the Top Funds, the only reason Common Core is in existence, DEMAND TESTING.

These tests have commenced in several states and the result in universal, massive failure.

The universal failure will be almost nationwide next year, when the results of this springs Armegeddon tests are released.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 requires testing. Where do the Race to the Top grants require testing? Please provide a link. Also, the Common Core standards come from the states. They do not come from the federal government.

But, in any case, so what? If children do not do well on the tests, then that means that they are not learning what they should be learning. And if children are not learning what they should be learning, then that is the problem.

The Parc test has never been given except in pilot form. The whole purpose of a pilot is to finetune. Let's wait and see what happens when the first iteration of the real test is given this spring. My child took the pilot verbal test last year and did not find it difficult.

[Anonymous]

Where do the Race to the Top require testing?

http://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/index.html

Clue: "assessments" means testing.

[Anonymous]

If children do not do well on the tests, then that means that they are not learning what they should be learning.

1. Assumes the standards are good.
2. Assumes the tests are valid and accurately measure the standards.

You don't seem to know much about the development of standards and tests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Yes, I'm being dramatic. The area of academics where my child with autism is gifted is math. While he needed every kind of therapy from toddlerhood, he fell in love with numbers and math before he could hold a conversation and he can handle complex calculations without explaining how. We are working hard to make sure he develops the social skills he needs to hopefully one day contribute to society and live independently. He has an IEP and private services to help him reach benchmark in the areas where he struggles. Sadly, the common core math is sucking the love, confidence and motivation right out of him. Sure we can get accommodations for the endless writing involved, but this one size fits all crap is moronic. I'll be lucky if I can get him through highschool if something doesn't change and this kid is in the top 1 percentile for math abilities and non-verbal reasoning.

How do I protest this? Most of America is furious and it seems complaining to the school board goes nowhere. I think a congressman or senator is suing. Should we all get signs and protest outside the department of education? What will it take?

Get off your ass and start searching for private schools or start homeschooling

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

If children do not do well on the tests, then that means that they are not learning what they should be learning.

1. Assumes the standards are good.
2. Assumes the tests are valid and accurately measure the standards.

You don't seem to know much about the development of standards and tests.

No, I know the standards are good. I've read them. Have you? If so, which standards, specifically, do you think are bad?

And yes, I am assuming that the tests are valid and accurately measure the standards. You seem to be assuming that they're invalid and don't accurately measure the standards. Why is your assumption better than my assumption?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Where do the Race to the Top require testing?

http://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/index.html

Clue: "assessments" means testing.

The schools are already required to do the testing. Even schools that will never see a penny of Race to the Top money are required to do the testing. They have been required to do the testing since passing of the No Child Left Behind law in 2001.

[Anonymous]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/09/uncommon_not_core.html

One person's view of why CC math is not a good thing. She explains why.

[Anonymous]

The schools are already required to do the testing. Even schools that will never see a penny of Race to the Top money are required to do the testing. They have been required to do the testing since passing of the No Child Left Behind law in 2001.

Know that--but a PP said testing is not required in Race to the Top. I think it's the poster who thinks that anything Arne Duncan does is gold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/09/uncommon_not_core.html

One person's view of why CC math is not a good thing. She explains why.

Thank you for sharing this. A great explanation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/09/uncommon_not_core.html

One person's view of why CC math is not a good thing. She explains why.

Ah yes. She doesn't like the Common Core standards because

1. they are too hard
2. they requires students to understand math
3. something something calculators

[Anonymous]

^^^they require, not they requires

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The schools are already required to do the testing. Even schools that will never see a penny of Race to the Top money are required to do the testing. They have been required to do the testing since passing of the No Child Left Behind law in 2001.

Know that--but a PP said testing is not required in Race to the Top. I think it's the poster who thinks that anything Arne Duncan does is gold.

How can the Race to the Top grants require something that is already required?

[Anonymous]

Common Core support is dropping like a stone. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/common-core-educational-standards-are-losing-support-nationwide-poll-shows/2014/08/19/67b1f20c-27cb-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html

And once the test results come out next year and 70 percent of kids fail like they have been in EVERY state that has used a Common Core test....there will be blood in the water. Politicians won't be able to run away from it fast enough, and that includes Democrats as well as Republicans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/09/uncommon_not_core.html

One person's view of why CC math is not a good thing. She explains why.


Ah yes. She doesn't like the Common Core standards because

1. they are too hard
2. they requires students to understand math
3. something something calculators

Her explanations were detailed and well-supported. You have perverted what she said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/09/uncommon_not_core.html

One person's view of why CC math is not a good thing. She explains why.

Ah yes. She doesn't like the Common Core standards because

1. they are too hard
2. they requires students to understand math
3. something something calculators

She wrote a detailed and well- supported discussion of the issues. This is your response? You are not representing your side well at all.