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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a kindergarten teacher. 
I agree with OP. I feel like the love of school is sucked out of the classroom now with so much focus on just reading and writing. Yes, I know that a good teacher can incorporate fun into the lessons, but there are just too few experienced "good" teachers these days. The pressure to churn out lesson plans that are scripted and highlight strict adherence to common core leaves a lot of teachers burnt out. I've seen teachers at my school sit a class of kindergartners at their tables to "read" at the beginning of the year for 45-60 mins straight. They can't read yet. They're just staring at the pages and being penalized when their attention drifts to something else. The opportunity to foster a love of learning is being taken away by such expectations. 
-just my two cents[/quote]

While yes, you do need to have a plan and curriculum that will cover the CC items (which you need to have regardless of CC or not), there's nothing in common core that prevents teachers from doing fun things - and certainly nothing that requires kids to sit for 45-60 minutes staring at a book that they can't yet read.  That sounds *completely* like the product of having lousy/clueless teachers, as opposed to anything common core is requiring anyone to do.[/quote]

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