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[quote=Anonymous]PP that I have been responding to -- I will admit that there is a valid complaint to be made, about the COmmon Core standards and ESOL/LD students.   One that definitely needs to be addressed.

Apparently teachers ARE being told that the law (not Common Core, but IDEA, I think) that LD students (and ESOL students as well... some other law) MUST be taught from the grade level or mainstream curriculum.

Teachers are at times at least being told they must teach the current grade level standards, not teach from lower year standards (even if that is the level their students are at.)

Again this isn't a Common Core issue but a federal law for LD students issue.   But since the Common Core standards are probably a lot higher than the former state standards (which probably had more wiggle room in them) this IS going to cause a problem with instruction.

But the problem isn't that Common Core standards are high.  It is that LD teachers and ESOL teachers need the leeway to select from below grade level standards in order to teach children who are currently working below grade level.[/quote]

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