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[quote=Anonymous]I just moved here from NYC.  Even before the Common Core we were overwhelmed with test prep.  My DD went to test prep on Saturday morning from 9-12 from January until April, at the public elementary school (3rd-5th grade), paid for from the Principal's budget.  Classroom time was also taken over by test prep during that time, at the expense of Social Studies and other good stuff.  The tests and the grading of the tests were problematic before Common Core.  The testing problem is not directly related to the Common Core, but to the fact that kids, teachers, principals and schools are evaluated so heavily by those tests, with very real consequences.

We were there for one year of Common Core implementation and I did not have a problem with it.  In fact, I liked it.  My then second grader's class was ahead of where my older daughter's class had been in second grade.  Importantly, I felt she would be more prepared for Middle School when the time came.  My older daughter had some catching up to do when she got to middle school because the elementary and middle school curricula were not aligned before the Common Core.

Now that we are here (in VA), I miss the Common Core.  I don't have a good sense of whether my middle schooler is keeping up with where she was in NYC.  I think she's not.  I don't think the VA curriculum is keeping up with the Common Core.  She can do more and I think a more ambitious curriculum is entirely appropriate.

So, I agree with previous posts that say that testing and the Common Core are separate issues.[/quote]

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