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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Common Core is the accepted standard and is the status quo.  It is up to the anti-CC folks to make and prove their case via specific details, tangible evidence, data, and analysis.  Yet they have consistently failed to do so and instead all they do is attempt to bamboozle, deflect, accuse and raise the same debunked points over and over again.  Sorry, but that is not how things work in the real world.[/quote]

Just curious...do your children attend public school?[/quote]

Not sure how that's relevant but I'm the PP and my children attend a charter, which is not just meeting, but exceeding CC standards - they don't teach to the tests, they don't spend any significant prep time on standardized tests, yet get some of the best scores in the region.  What they do works.[/quote]

It's relevant because a lot of people who don't work in the public schools and send their children to privates have very little knowledge of how difficult it is for children who speak very limited English, have significant special needs, or have had very limited educational exposure (due to a variety of factors) to meet these standards. I assess struggling children every day, and it's putting undue pressure on them because their teachers are expected to bring them up to unrealistic standards. I'm all for doing everything possible to help every child reach his/her potential, but many need the basics first. As an example, if you're 10 years old and reading on a first grade level, you can't be expected to write the process for solving a math problem.[/quote]

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