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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous](Because as it has been well established, "Common Core" is a list of standards.   So if "Common Core" is dreadful, then it must be a standard that is dreadful.

So look up the standards, and tell us which one or ones are particularly dreadful, for Midwestern children.

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It is clear this is a drum teachers beat. BYW? Beck covers this type of mentality.

Standards need implementation. If the implementation is poor, the kids don't learn the standards. So the standards the become moot, whether they are 'poor' or not.

But since public school teachers have not held a job outside of government, I do understand this might be a hard concept to understand for y'all.[/quote]

If implementation is poor -- address the implementation.   No need to change the standards.   Talk to the states and the school districts who are purchasing or creating poor curriculum and worksheets and tell them "This is a bad textbook.  Buy something different!"

Contact your state department of education and say "Don't add on all these extra hard standards in social studies and Science that are stressing out our kids.   Stick to just the Common Core standards, and a few easy achievable standards in Science and Social Studies, like we used to have, not all these hard ones from Core Knowledge.   They are too hard for our kids."

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Sweetheart, this should have been considered when the standards were written, i.e. what would be the resources and who would create them. And in fact, they were, but the materials coming out are STILL crap. You act as if there is no relationship between the creators of the standards and the creators of the curriculum, when in fact, the same people were involved in both. You really need to do some reading on how these standards were created, who the players are and what the relationships are that tie them all together into a neat little package.

I pay my taxes and expect my money to be used efficiently. Now you are telling me I have to spend my time and effort to try and clean up the BS that they created? You and I both know that it's not very effective nor efficient. [/quote]

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