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Again one of the the many problems with the standards is THEY ARE NOT CHANGEABLE. They are copyrighted, and states "approved" them before they were ever written, with zero idea what would be in them.  SO if they SUCK and are inappropriate, tough shit. We're stuck. Our kids our stuck. Our teachers and schools are stuck.

These standards will be studied --- unfortunately, at the cost of this generation of children, who have had their education hijacked by trying to meet a hodgepodge of standards by a bunch of nerds who understand books but not children.

And to "aspirational level" -- these standards were written for the top 30 percent of children. The rest will fail, year after year after year, until we finally have millions of non-graduates who are unemployable.

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So what solution do you propose? "Get rid of the Common Core" is not a solution. At best it would get us back to the problems of 2009. If you don't want the Common Core standards, what do you want instead?

And I really don't understand the argument about copyright. It's impossible for the owner of the copyrighted materials to change the materials? The NGA Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers couldn't change the Common Core standards if they wanted to? I am not a lawyer, but I'm dubious.

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