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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Indiana isn't exactly a best practices leader in the field of education, so this doesn't concern me.

What does concern me is that the Tea Party fringe seems to be using the education of our children now as a pawn in their desperate bid for relevance. After realizing they'd lost the fight on the Affordable Care Act, some of the Tea Party leadership began fixating on Common Core, believing it has something to do with Obama (it does not). CC is actually a genuinely grassroots and nonpartisan effort involving governors of both parties in multiple states.

I'm more embarrassed by my liberal friends who have jumped on the bandwagon, ironically without giving it very much critical thought. They're fixating on the wrong things like this idiotic woman who sent that letter to "Jack" and the equally stupid woman who testified, tearfully, before the Arkansas Board of Education, and are, frankly, just scared because kids aren't being taught things the same way they were.  Admittedly, this makes it a little harder to help with homework, but it doesn't make the pedagogy unsound.

I'm so over the rose-colored images of our childhoods in the 70s and 80s. Supposedly we had better educations, all played in the streets unsupervised. What next: Better drugs? Things were not better then. They were just different. People really need to stop being so afraid of things they do not understand like Common Core, and be willing to know what they don't know.[/quote]

I'm one of those liberal parents, and I've done my homework. Common Core is terrible. It's junk. I see this every day with my son, who begs not to go to school each day. He doesn't understand the math, we don't understand the math, and it's geared for a highly verbal child, and our son has a language disability.

There's also no proof that making math ridiculously hard in K through 3 will  lead to better math students in the future.   As in NONE.  Or that forcing kids to read on grade level - when their actual level is several grades lower -- will help them understand and read better.

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