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"Another district parent named Anntoinette spoke about children experiencing stress and called it a tragedy that children who had once loved school and were successful now dread going to school.

“... w[b]atched with a breaking heart how her daughter’s love of school has dwindled by the inappropriate standards [/b]placed on her at her tender age.”

“Earlier this week, [b]a five-year-old was crying because she was frustrated with the day’s assignment of paragraph-mapping. Most of the children are struggling with learning the alphabet and they are being asked to deconstruct a paragraph….”
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“My child has also been having difficulties with Common Core, starting last year. We had her crying, confused, utterly upset anytime she was given homework and I couldn’t help her with it. And I am a university graduate….”

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2013/nov/18/ticker-chula-vista-school-admin-common-core/#ixzz2l7qBM7T8[/quote]

This is curriculum, not standards.  The K standards do not call for paragraph mapping.  Read them.[/quote]

The standards are poorly written and vague and can be interpreted many ways.  Surely you can see that. [/quote]

No, actually I do not see that.  [/quote]

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