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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't get it. I thought that the whole point of schools was to be a major influence on education.  
 
 
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That is why it needs to be at the local level where parents can control it.[/quote]

Exactly. There is recent footage of a man in NH being ARRESTED for going over the 2 minute talk rule at a school board meeting at a library. They did not want him to talk about the book his 9th grade daughter was reading, which was on the list of advanced reading for Common Core. The book was Jody Picoult's "Nineteen Minutes. Want to read the passage he was objecting to? It's detailed here, along with the story and video:  http://eagnews.org/new-hampshire-father-opposes-required-reading-of-pornographic-novel-in-9th-grade-english/

If you watch, you can see the policeman seemed hesitant and reluctant. He apparently told the man "He didn't want to do this".

It is INSANE a man can be ARRESTED at a meeting like this. Why does a school board need an officer there? Why are they feeling that parents will revolt against them? 
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Here's the of 9th grade fiction texts that Common Core provides.  These are described as examples, to give teachers and districts a sense of the kinds of texts to select, and are not required, but you'll notice that there is no Jodi Picoult on the list.  It's a pretty traditional list.  Please excuse the page numbers, they direct you as to where, in appendix B, you can find sample texts from the books listed below.

[quote= The Actual Common Core Standards]
Homer. The Odyssey ..........................................................................................................101
Ovid. Metamorphoses .......................................................................................................101
Gogol, Nikolai. “The Nose.” .............................................................................................102
De Voltaire, F. A. M. Candide, Or The Optimist ......................................................103
Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons ................................................................................104
Henry, O. “The Gift of the Magi.” ..................................................................................104
Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis ...............................................................................105
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath ......................................................................105
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451 ......................................................................................106
Olsen, Tillie. “I Stand Here Ironing.” ............................................................................106
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart ...............................................................................107
Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird ...............................................................................107
Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels...............................................................................108
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club ........................................................................................108
Álvarez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies ...........................................................108
Zusak, Marcus. The Book Thief .....................................................................................109

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As far as enforcing time limits, most public forums have rules about doing so.  Were the police in this case overzealous in enforcing this issue (that is unrelated to CCSS)?  Possibly, but the question of how one enforces rules of order in public forums is totally separate from Common Core.[/quote]

The book is on an advanced reading list and is said to meet Common Core standards, according to the district. They did not deny this. Again, if the districts are 'making errors', why?[/quote]

[b]One [/b]high school, out of the 4 high schools they found that were teaching this title, out of the thousands of high schools in all the states adopting CCSS, published a list of books for students independent reading and titled the list "Advanced Common Core

Yes, this book probably meets CCSS in the sense that it has a suitable level of text complexity, that is grammar and vocabulary and literary elements, for high school students.    A student who needs practice on CCSS goals that address things like fluency and understanding complex text could practice those goals in the context of this book or any one of a thousand other books. That isn't to say that the topic or content is or isn't appropriate, just that it's got the right kinds of structures to stretch 9th graders' skills.

However, this is not a book suggested by, or required by CCSS.  The only 9th grade fiction texts suggested by CCSS are the ones listed above. The only texts required by CCSS in any grade are the 3 texts named in the following standard for 11th and 12th graders.

[quote=The Actual Common Core State Standards]

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.9
Analyze seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century foundational U.S. documents of historical and literary significance (including The Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address) for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.

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As a teacher, I've made similar lists all the time of "other books your kid can read".  I teach little kids so my lists have things like[u] Henry and Mudge[/u] rather than Jodi Picoult, but it's still a judgement call.  If I were to put something inappropriate on the list, it is my responsibility.  Similarly the teacher who put this book on this list is the one responsible for the choice.[/quote]

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