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I agree, and I'm a liberal.  I think Common Core, at least the way it's been implemented, really hurts introverts.  Not with any learning issues, just introverts.  Yes, my child *can* make conversation and talk with her peers about every darned thing they do in class, but it takes a lot out of her and makes her hate school.  She never gets any time to just do her own work and think.  If you're an introvert, you need that to be happy.  I think back to my education, and I was a shy introvert as well, and I at least had my own little universe at my desk where I could have some space for myself.  I learned socialization (and you wouldn't even think i'm an introvert today), but at recess and lunch and some other sporadic group projects.  But in elementary school it's just about who's the biggest alpha social butterfly.  Totally sucks, and not representative of the real world.  I'm a successful professional, and I spend 3/4 of my day basically alone.  I'm certainly not forced to chitchat all day long.[/quote]

Your child can do her own thing at home.  The point of school is guided learning.  It isn't about socializing and play.  If she needs that, she needs to go back to preschool.  And, the point of this thread was about SN.  And introvert is not a SN.  It is a personality type.  Be lucky you are just struggling with a child as an introvert.  Many of us would wish to have your problems.[/quote]

There appears to be one or two posters on this thread who are willfully misreading others' posts.  Nowhere did PP talk about her child wanting socializing and play.  Quite the contrary; PP's child wants time alone to absorb and was presumably ruing the forced discussions among children of various math problems under some implementations of CC.  I thought the introvert point was interesting in this context.  I work with a number of people who are quant superstars--think multiple articles published in the most prestigious journals in their fields.  And almost every one is an introvert.

I don't know what the second PP's angle is.  But it's a bit breathtaking that she thinks  the first PP should--as a normal course of things--teach her child after the child has spent hours in school.  Then she goes on to attack the first PP for just having an introverted kid because so many others (implicitly second PP but so mean spirited one wonders) have an SN kid.  And to top it all off, she accuses first PP of being off topic.  Which she is not; the article yes was about language impaired kids and CC (not SN more broadly), but the point many have made in this thread is that poor implementation has made the estimable CC standards inaccessibe to many, not just the language impaired, and including the fully NT.[/quote]

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