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I hate Common Core because the standards are unreasonable for children with learning disabilities and no allowance is made for them.  They are a total afterthought. My child is the collateral damage is this guinea pig scheme, THAT HAS NOT BEEN FIELD TESTED. The standarrds increased the reading levels overnight, they wrap all the math requirements in a ton of language, and my son begs not to go to school everyday. THat enough reason for you?

It's also incredibly disingenuous (and downright dumb) to say that the Common Core standards are all nice and pretty, it's just the implementation/testing. This is like saying "Go ahead and marry Prince Charming, and forget about the fact that his axe-murder mother is moving in with you too.

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Standards for general education will never be made, with special education students in mind.   The fact that they cannot meet the grade level standards is precisely what qualifies them for special ed status.

As for your Prince Charming analogy -- it's like saying, Keep the nice guy, but do something about the axe murderer!   Not, "Dump the Prince"[/quote]

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