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Note that this is a thread about Special Education and Common Core. Many, many kids with disabilities cannot do this.  So they are "failures" starting in Kindergarten. [/quote]

But what do you want to be done about this? Should there be only standards that everybody can meet? Should there be no standards? [/quote]

Common Core supporters keep running back to this lame argument.  Here's how an actual business would do it:

-Identify a need (students allegedly slipping behind other countries.)

-Create a prototype curriculum, vetted by experts.

-Test it in the field to make sure it ACTUALLY WORKS. Fix all the kinks in it.

-Roll it out.

-React to feedback, tweaking and perfecting the plan.

Common Core has little of that. It was slapdashed together, and it was copyrighted so no one could change it, just add up to 20 percent  to it. Tests were added to the process to make sure everyone was learning (or in this case, not learning) the exact same thing. These tests will start quickly to function as a straitjacket as teachers' jobs and students' very futures are tied to them.

All this, with  zero proof Common Core holds together as a curriculum and will actually advance our children.

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None of what you posted would solve your stated problem which is that not all kids can meet the standards.   The only solution to that problem is to not have any grade level standards.   [/quote]

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