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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have looked at the MCPS website re 2.0.   They don't mention anything about how they plan to incorporate common core standards at the higher grade levels--but I know they are planning to do so.  It's a real shame. Parents need to wake up and make a fuss like they did in NY--if we don't, they'll mess up middle school and high school the way they have for elementary school!   [b]These standards are a joke[/b] and so is the new technology plan.  
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Which Common Core standards do you think are a joke, and why do you think so?[/quote]

Obama put forth common core because he wanted every state to have the same standards. Then he bribed states with money the first couple years if they signed up. 
If Maryland had very high state standards before and Mississippi had very low standards, now they don't. They have the same mediocre Obama education dept standards now. (Which costs millions to reinvent of course).
Each state that signed up for the money, err, standards, has come up with its implementation plan and teaching curriculum. THIS is what MoCo and Maryland really F'd up. The implementation. 
Plus it lowered its standards in several mcps schools. But nevermind that, it needs to cater more to the ESOL and poverty kids. Who cares about the middle class, they can just keep paying their ever-rising porosity taxes for more ESOL teachers, farm lunches, and teachers aides for disruptive classes. They can teach their kid themselves or let them wallow in repetition, proficiency, experimental teaching methods, and botched instruction. [/quote]

That's interesting. You didn't answer the question.

(Also, [b]Obama did not put forth the Common Core standards. They come from the states: the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO[/b]).)[/quote]

It is amazing to me that people who seem to have such a hatred towards CC seem to know very little about it other than the perceived "dumbing down" of standards.  Obama had *nothing* to do with the standards.  But I agree, the implementation of 2.0 hasn't been very good, however, some of 2.0 (or CC) standards are actually raising the standards across the board. [/quote]

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