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Zimba sounds incredibly naive, totally clueless about writing standards and the actual follow-through that requires.

Why should our children be subject to what he says they should be learning at every grade? He has little classroom experience; he's an academic in a little glass bubble. [/quote]

And yet somehow the standards he and the others came up with are good standards.  They are in fact much better than what we used to have in Maryland, and there's an advantage in that they are common now to many states.   The require mastery of basic facts by a certain age, and fluency with STANDARD ALGORITHMS  (Carry the 1) by certain grades.  Without use of calculators, which is different from what was expected/ allowed in many states.

The biggest problem with the standards is simply that they are set a bit too high for the lowest performing 2-3% of our student population, who will only be able to minimally achieve them.   I agree that this is a problem, and those students shouldn't be sacrificed just because they are unable to ever meet these standards. [/quote]

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