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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]^ So then you are admitting you don't actually have any real data to support the accusation that Common Core is "damaging?"[/quote]

Of course we don't have data, your holy data highness.  But that does not mean that we are not seeing things in our classrooms that are disturbing when we use these standards.  We are on the front lines.  If we don't voice what is happening, we could be accused of negligence or dereliction in our duties to our students.  We have a duty to speak out when we see something that is not working or worse.  Your response is that we don't really have to use the standards and we don't really have to worry about the tests.  Well, then why the heck are we spending money on them?[/quote]

I never said anything about not having to use standards.  I said schools don't have to constrain themselves to standards.  They are free to use whatever teaching methods, educational approaches, materials, et cetera - provided they at least teach the standards as a minimum.

And if you are talking about many of the things mentioned in that article, like sacrificing art and play, sorry, I can't accept any of that because again those are red herrings as the standards do not demand that those things be sacrificed.

Likewise, contrary to what's been claimed, Common Core does not actually require K students to be able to read.  It says they should have some basic concepts of phonics and a few other things down but beyond that it doesn't actually shift any reading expectations forward from what the SOLs generally already had for years. [/quote]

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