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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is my first year student teaching. My daughter is four, so I hadn't been exposed to the common core before this year. My kindergarten class is drowning in common core waters. It takes a truly remarkable teacher to get kids up to these levels. Some of it is easy and seems like common sense. Others, not so much. I'm really worried about the future of education. I've strongly considered quitting, but I'm too far in now. Everyone at the school keeps telling me that to just do my five years and try to get a job working with policy. [/quote]

I don't understand. All Common Core does is say what the kids need to know at the end of K. Are you saying these expectations are too hard? How do standards make you "drown" in "Common Core waters?"

I assume these standards are things like primary colors, count to 10, etc. Is that really so hard?

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Here are the kindergarten standards for math: http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/K/introduction/
Here are the kindergarten standards for English/language arts: http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/L/K/[/quote]

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