The article really only criticized CC on the Kindergarten level, and I am 100% in agreement. I'm worried about my (late birthday, boy) PK4-er next year. Maybe he'll mature in 8 months, but he's just not ready for more intense academic rigor. He's observant, loves to role play,loves art ,and loves to be read too...and so he loves his current TOTM DCPS. I hate to think that it's all going to change next year.

His dad was a late reader, but once he started began reading the paper daily and has a love of reading today.

Common-core is not the problem. Its implementation has sucked but frankly, it is just a conspiracy that a lot of parents tell themselves rather than really try to understand what their kids need to know.

Our system does not challenge kids to learn, it focuses way too much on pointless skill drills and empty content. Common Core at least calls these weaknesses out. Instead of screaming about a few bad work sheets maybe we need get a clue about how much more kids around the world know than our own.

The problem with public schools is that the primary focus of teaching degrees is pedagogy, education theory, behavioral science, et cetera - as opposed to teachers actually having a sufficiently strong grounding in the content.