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[quote=Anonymous]No fan of Common Core here, that video of a teacher telling parents it's ok if their children think 2+2=5 as long as they can explain it really opened my eyes. At the same time at Parent night our teacher explained that we should not help our children with math because we will teach it to them wrong. I have three post graduate degrees, trust me I know math and how to teach it, yet ironically the math assignments my child would bring home (3rd grade) were incomprehensible.

Also the STEM training is somewhat of a joke. Hard to teach children that CO2 is vital for life, that we exhale it with every breathe because its produced via our respiratory metabolic cycle when they come home in near tears because they were told this natural gas is a pollutant. We pay exorbitant taxes yet the quality of our children's education is rapidly declining. What's frustrating is because the taxes are so high we cannot really afford private school. The irony is we moved here vice Northern Virginia because we heard the schools were so good.[/quote]

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