Yet another major reason to home school or send your kids to Church schools. A question for my Catholic brothers and sisters (just curious, not being antagonistic) - what is position of Catholic schools on Common Core?
I think the various dioceses decide for themselves.
I would ask for the school’s position or the diocese. Just recently 132 Catholic scholars took the step of sending a letter to ALL the bishops in the US re: their professional opinion of Common Core — they were very scathing in their condemnation of it.
Common core is one of those things that at first hearing sounds okay, i.e. have at least a benchmark for some minimal standards, but on close examination, it’s not really education, so much as teaching to the test and hitting the lowest common denominator skills. For example, a bus schedule rather than literature?! And it can easily become indoctrination ... and if your school doesn’t do that, will it hurt your kid’s chances of getting into college of choice? [I tend to think not.]
BUT here is a link to what the Catholic Scholars sent to the bishops.
http://dianeravitch.net/2013/11/11/catholic-scholars-blast-common-core/