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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] in fact, Common Core standards are not all that different from what most schools with established standards already had in place for years.[/quote]

Something must be different or people wouldn't be noticing.  It's about the standards.  People who post on here may be more partisan than most.  Most parents in America are not that ideological.  They are very pragmatic, especially when it  comes to their kids.  There are a few outliers.  The states that are pulling out are not doing it for ideological reasons. The changes are impractical for them right now, especially based on their budgets.  People just don't see how it's all worth the money.  And five states never took it on (thankfully one is Virginia).[/quote]

The vast majority of people "noticing" that something is wrong are only just now catching on to the fact that schools have for years been teaching garbage - weak phonics programs and overemphasis on sight words, resulting in poor reading skills, no mastery of math facts and key math algorithms, overreliance on calculators and an aversion to having students do meaningful homework to reinforce what they've learned - and then they point to "fuzzy math" problems on a worksheet (not realizing it's copyrighted 2004, long before Common Core), noticing that their 7th grader is struggling with math and other things, and they are then blaming Common Core, as though Common Core was the cause of all of these problems which in fact go back decades.  What they think they are noticing is merely them being slow on the uptake.

That, and yes, the ideological reasons - opposition to Common Core because they think it's an Obama thing (when in fact it was a States initiative) and NCLB because they think it's an Obama thing (when in fact it was a Bush initiative) - but damn that Kenyan born communist Muslin, we'll show him![/quote]

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