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Sweetheart, this should have been considered when the standards were written, i.e. [b]what would be the resources and who would create them.[/b] 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]

Those resources however, are STATE decisions.   [b]Each state has autonomy to decide how it wants to teach children.[/b]   That was the whole point of having, not a national curriculum, but simply national standards.

I disagree that "the materials" are crap.   Our school district is not using crap.   My kids do not come home with crap.  They are coming home with perfectly find HW and texts.   I really approve of the writing they are doing.   So somewhere things are working OK.

I don't care who you contact or what you personally do with your time, sweetie pie.   But if you are concerned with how standards are being IMPLEMENTED then the place for those concerns are with the people who are doing the IMPLEMENTATION.   That's not Common Core.   That is happening with curricular decisions, either in your local school or at the school district or state level.[/quote]

Not when they are taking the same national tests. In order to do so, the curriculum has to align with those tests.  And since the SAT and ACT will also be re-written to align to those standards, that makes them national, regardless of what you are being told.

If the materials have errors, then those materials are crap. I assume you work? Try and experiment. For the next month, turn in your work with errors. If you are an accountant, screw up some numbers. Need to produce a report? Make some spelling errors. Extra bonus points if those errors make your work frustrating for your bosses to understand. Let me know at the end of the month how you are received.  If you are a federal worker though, I suspect it will be business as usual.

It's pretty hard to challenge something you're left out of to begin with. Did you have a seat at the Common Core table? How about when the materials were being written? Were you asked to participate? Was your input solicited? Now if those products are meant to be consumed in a free market, well, that's fine - I  have a choice. If it sucks, I don't buy it. But in this case, the only choice I have is pay my taxes, even if the product is crap, or go to jail.  Hmmm, that sounds an awful lot like Obamacare, come to think of it....[/quote]

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