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You're galloping from argument to argument. The argument at the top was, "The Common Core standard limits our flexibility!" The question was, "How does this standard limit our flexibility?" Please answer that question.

Also, once again, an opponent of the Common Core standards is conflating the Common Core standards with the PARCC tests. [/quote]

Okay, I will say it slowly......Why were the PARCC tests developed?  Answer: to test Common Core standards.  The states would not have needed all those new tests if they had not adopted Common Core?  Do you understand? Yes, I know NCLB requires tests--but these tests would not have been needed and this consortium would not have been developed, and the taxpayers would hardly be paying an additional 2 Billion dollars, were it not for Common Core.  Sadly, the overall standards are inflexible, but occasionally we run across a standard like the one you posted.  A standard that is vague, imprecise, and stupid.

And, okay, that "standard" is not inflexible.  Actually, it is not even what I consider a standard. It is not well written and does not meet the criteria that Common Core has on its own website.  It is just very poorly written and unprofessional.  That makes me question the knowledge and ability of the people who wrote the standards.  Why anyone would call these standards "good" is beyond me.
  
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Did you think that all of the states would all develop their standards one time, and their tests one time, and then never change any standards or tests, ever again, after that? And do you think that the states would do all of this, individually, at a cost of less than $40 per student?

Also, why are you fixating on the PARCC tests, specifically?

And finally, here is the question I have asked all of the people with copy-editing objections to the Common Core standards: how would you rewrite that standard so that it meets your definition of a standard? Nobody has answered that question yet.[/quote]

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