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  Reports are flooding in that Kids subjected to these Common Core standards are shutting down, begging not to go to school every day. And they are in KINDERGARTEN!

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Reports are also flooding in that kids subjected to these Common Core standards like school and are learning math. Or, at least, those are the reports at my house.[/quote]

If you learn in a particular way, you will like the Common Core. [b]If not, you are are deemed stupid and worthless.[/b] [/quote]

If someone is deeming a child stupid, and worthless?  That is a HUGE problem,  but it has nothing to do with Common Core.[/quote]

Again, read the blogs of parents whose children ARE struggling with Common Core. That is the takeaway message for these kids.  That's how they feel, day after day, when they try to do work they don't understand. [/quote]

I agree that they have a problem, but I don't see how you can blame it on Common Core.   If these are kids in New York, apparently NY State has implemented a curriculum that is quite rigorous and ambitious, and also appears to be based on the Core Knowledge sequence.   They have taken basic Common Core standards, and have added a great deal of Core Knowledge content.   If teachers are making kids feel stupid, then teachers need to change.   If the New York State Curriculum is too hard for these kids, or if they have learning disabilities that make the standards inappropriate, then those things need to be addressed.

But the Common Core objectives are actually pretty basic, and in my opinion, reasonable.   I say this as a parent of 2 kids in Common Core schools, and as an ESOL teacher in elementary school.   The Common Core objectives are not that difficult that most students shouldn't be able to reach the standards, just fine, with proper instruction.
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