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No, I'm sorry, you don't get any choices in our new totalitarian regime. You will take an engineering test in Chinese because that's what the regime has decided you must do. It doesn't matter that you don't want to be an engineer or have ever been taught Chinese. You must know the material anyway. There are no changes and no exceptions or exemptions.

You will sit in room for 10 to 20 hours and take an engineering test in Chinese. No excuses. Just work harder,  read "closer." You will do this year after year, for at least 6 years.

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I do, huh? Well too f*cking bad.

This impossible scenario is exactly what learning disabled children are facing. They walk into a new school year, and find the 8th grade science book is now the 5th grade science book. But they are reading on a second grade  level, so they have no idea what's going on. The school district says the book cannot be adapted for the child.  Next, the child finds his math class is now group math, and even though he has the verbal skills of a 5-year-old, he is expected to work in a group and be fully conversational  -- only one child in the group is allowed to ask the teacher anything -- and the four kids work on [b]5-page long word problems.[/b]  No direct teacher instruction. No other curriculum options but "autism" math, where they are adding 0 + 3, even though your child is well into fractions, decimals, etc. But they've poured all their money and training into their new curriculum, and everybody must take it.

This snippet is one of hundreds and hundreds going on around the country because of Common Core, and is worshipping minions.

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Your school sucks.   But understand nothing in Common Core has required your school district to set things up they way they have chosen to do so.

If the school district has chosen a science text book written at an 8th grade reading level, for their 5th grade students, that seems like a bad choice to me.

If your 5th grade child is reading at a 2nd grade level, that is a HUGE problem, and won't be remediated in Science class.  But you know that.   
   
If your 5th grade child has the verbal skills of a 5 year old, but is expected to fully participate in a grade level math class, and only one child is allowed to speak (WTF??) to the teacher?    Your child needs a better IEP, stat.

If you 5th grade child is expected to work in a group of 5 page long math word problems with no direct teacher instruction?  Jeez.  Your school sucks.  [b]This has nothing to do with Common Core.[/b]  [/quote]

No, this IS the Common Core. It's CPM math, and it's the only math curriculum that didn't have to be reworked for the Common Core. It's been a disaster in every school that's tried it. And it's TOTALLY Common Core.

http://www.oregonlive.com/hillsboro/index.ssf/2013/11/in_hillsboro_new_math_curricul.html

Just because your school isn't doing it now, doesn't mean they won't be next year after almost your whole school fails the PARCC.

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