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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I think Common Core is going down the tubes and our pro CC poster knows it. Does she really not get the connection between the money and the support for CC?[/quote]

I am not the "pro CC" PP, but I am also not spitting venom at them.

Standards aren't going away, folks. These standards are fine.  In fact, they're no different from those in the past really. What IS the problem are how the tests are given to every Tom, Dick, Harry, Maria and Ivan -with the expectation that all students reach the same benchmarks at the same time.

This is unrealistic and truly disrespectful to our hard workers who are behind due to circumstances beyond an educator's control.  Kids aren't widgets; we can't push a screen and instantly change how a kid's brain is functioning.

But this is in essence what the tests are expecting educators to do.

Ultimately, we're creating an underclass where kids - who could have been successful in a trade - are dropping out or "graduating" with poor skills b/c they're being pushed along.

You can't hate the standards.  You can only hate how they're being abused to justify positions of those who are not anchored to any classroom setting.
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