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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
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The Punchline: K-2 standards (at least) are inappropriate. Neither research or experience support then. They need to be eliminated.

I scanned through the K-2 standards and I was hard pressed to find one my DC didn't breeze through and she was in a program that was so far removed from "rote memorization", etc. that its not even funny. I am not convinced that there is anything wrong with the standards themselves.

Yes, in the Maryland Public Schools forum, the received wisdom is that the K-2 standards are developmentally inappropriate -- because they belong in preschool, not in K-2. [b]I always have to check whether I'm on the The Standards Are Way Too Easy forum or the The Standards Are Way Too Hard forum[/b].[/quote]

Which is why national standards are not going to work.  You've got upper middle class people who post on DCUM and whose children got to MCPS who think the standards are ridiculous because they are too easy.  They are a waste of time for their kids.  Then you've got the teachers of the kids who are lower class (the parents don't come on these forums so the teachers are trying to speak for these people).  Those teachers who have children on FRMs, etc. know that the standards are too hard for those kids.  And you come on here as an upper middle class technocrat saying that you don't understand why the FRMs can't use those standards.  You need to go and spend a year teaching the kinds of kids who don't come to school with all the advantages that the upper middle class kids come with.  Do you not understand why the achievement gap exists????  Hint:  it is not about teachers and standards.

Pull your head out of the sand.  Think.  [/quote]

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