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And this is also a wrong assumption. Plenty of false claims made about "developmental inappropriateness" without any real evidence to support it. You claim the soil won't support it yet in 100+ pages of discussion threads you STILL can't seem to produce anything adequately specific or detailed relating to testing soil and determining what it can or cannot support. [/quote]

Here you go:

A child who starts Kindergarten and cannot tell that an M is different from a T is not likely to be ready to learn long and short vowels. Many children start K without being able to identify letters of the alphabet.  Will some learn long and short vowels?  Yes.  Will most?  Not likely and it would not be developmentally appropriate for that child.  There are many other things that are more important for that child to learn first.  That is basic information.  You can argue it if you like, but most--if not all- K teachers would agree.  Unfortunately, the committees who developed Common Core did not have anyone with recent early childhood experience--if any at all.  They certainly did not have any experience with kids who come from struggling environments.  There are many skills involved in learning to read: visual discrimination;  auditory discrimination; etc.  These need to be developed before all of the Common Core requirements kick in.  Most important, however, is rich vocabulary development and other readiness skills.  Pushing kids to read too soon means that so many other things are being left out. So many things that will help the kids understand what they read later--when they do learn to read.
When the Common Core Committees decided to start at the top, they left all of this out.  A PP said that these skills are foundational.  No, they are not.  You have to start at the bottom and build.  These standards were written with a lofty goal--but they miss the mark.  Sadly, the poorest children will suffer the most.  That is where my heart is.  
One of the posters on this site keeps throwing out political arguments--as if that is what the people who dislike the standards are basing the arguments on.  She is dead wrong.  The teaches on this site who adamantly oppose Common Core are concerned about the kids they teach.  They understand the serious consequences of this program. And, yes, they understand that NCLB is a huge part of it.  However, Common Core is a piggyback program to NCLB.  It is not separate and cannot be separated from it because so much of it is riding on the tests that are supported and developed by the same people that support Common core.

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