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Ah, the naive Maryland parents, who have their heads in the sand about the Common Core testing sledgehammer about to hit their kids next year.

In every state where they have started with Common Core testing, the children are failing miserably. In Kentucky, that's been year after year. Yes, they've been taught Common Core for more than two years, and more than half the kids can't pass the tests.

That's what's in store for you and your kids.

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I'm not a naive parent.   My kids already take tests every quarter in their public school in  Language Arts, Math and Science; designed to look exactly like the (former) MSA tests; they already take plenty of unit tests every couple of weeks.   They seem to survive.   My son has been a part of a PARRC pilot testing program.   He said it was "fine"... no big deal.   It was a test.

I KNOW that the kids in our school district will fail the PARRC if there is any expectation of writing.   I do expect that writing instruction is going to be much more heavily emphasized in the next few years.

I expect we'll see even less instruction in Social Studies and Health in elementary school, than we do now, because these subjects are not measured at all on any PARRC Test.   That bothers me.

Kids in Kentucky are failing their tests because the tests are bad, and because the schools aren't doing a great job of teaching.

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