"Teacher of the Year" quits over Common Core tests

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Also, shouldn't you be on the phone to the National Governors Association, or is that a different poster?

Different poster. They are in town today. You do know that it is a trade association, don't you?

I don't understand your point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Also, shouldn't you be on the phone to the National Governors Association, or is that a different poster?

Different poster. They are in town today. You do know that it is a trade association, don't you?

Weird definition of "trade association" - trade association is typically an organization representing private sector manufacturers, as opposed to an organization of elected state officials.

[Anonymous]

Their meetings are not open to the public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Their meetings are not open to the public.

That's not how "trade association" is defined.

[Anonymous]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/02/17/why-i-once-liked-common-core-but-changed-my-mind-one-principals-view/


A respected voice of experience and reason in the above article

[Anonymous]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/02/17/why-i-once-liked-common-core-but-changed-my-mind-one-principals-view/

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why

“Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (such as 18 = 10 + 8); understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.”

would make somebody's jaw drop. It basically asks a kindergartener to understand, by the end of kindergarten, that thirteen consists of one ten and three ones.

What's more, I think that this is the most complex kindergarten math standard.

And finally, this was on-grade-level math in my child's kindergarten class before the Common Core standards. The kindergarten teacher used Digi-Blocks.

[Anonymous]

^ I didn't learn this until second grade and even then I recall that it was hard for a lot of kids. I'm not sure what kindergarten your kid went to.

[Anonymous]

“Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (such as 18 = 10 + 8); understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.”

When a kid comes to school and cannot count to ten consistently, that standard is quite a reach. There are more kids like this than you think.

[Anonymous]

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“Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (such as 18 = 10 + 8); understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.”

When a kid comes to school and cannot count to ten consistently, that standard is quite a reach. There are more kids like this than you think.

"These are poor kids from the inner city, they aren't capable!" <- that is the soft bigotry of low expectations...

[Anonymous]

"These are poor kids from the inner city, they aren't capable!" <- that is the soft bigotry of low expectations...

Wow. How many years have you taught in the inner city? That's the answer: blame the teacher.

[Anonymous]

that is the soft bigotry of low expectations...

Wow. It is a fact. Not a low expectation. How long do you think it takes to teach a kid to count with one to one correspondence if he cannot do it when he starts school?

[Anonymous]

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that is the soft bigotry of low expectations...

Wow. It is a fact. Not a low expectation. How long do you think it takes to teach a kid to count with one to one correspondence if he cannot do it when he starts school?

Wow. Well, here we are. The anti-CCers reveal themselves for the racists that they are. I guess we finally now can understand that they have been calling it "developmentally inappropriate" because they consider it "fact" that black kindergartners aren't capable of learning the alphabet song or learning to count to 20 because they are apparently inferior beings.

Holy cow. Just when I thought this thread was merely obnoxious and pedantic, now it's gone full bore racist.

[Anonymous]

Wow. Well, here we are. The anti-CCers reveal themselves for the racists that they are. I guess we finally now can understand that they have been calling it "developmentally inappropriate" because they consider it "fact" that black kindergartners aren't capable of learning the alphabet song or learning to count to 20 because they are apparently inferior beings.

Holy cow. Just when I thought this thread was merely obnoxious and pedantic, now it's gone full bore racist.

Wow. A poster points out that some kindergarteners start school without being able to count. Poster points out that the standard about place value is a stretch to accomplish that year. And, now it is racist?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

“Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (such as 18 = 10 + 8); understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.”

When a kid comes to school and cannot count to ten consistently, that standard is quite a reach. There are more kids like this than you think.

"These are poor kids from the inner city, they aren't capable!" <- that is the soft bigotry of low expectations...

They aren't.

They come in behind, and it's impossible to move most up, especially if class sizes are large.

At the HS level, I have 29 kids in inclusion classes. At least half are reading way below grade level. I am one person. Do you honestly think I'm capable of performing miracles?