I’m very passionate about education and this issue.
Young children are precious and there minds are NOT to be f88ked with.
When my daughter was born I told my wife that I wanted her to quit work and be a stay at home mom. Even though I had no idea how we would afford this. She did and I found a way to provide for a $12,000 a year private “ALL Girl Catholic” school. She was Greek Orthodox and I was a Methodist at best. It would be safe to say that at this time neither of us were devout. We looked at a number of “New age” private schools in our area and it wasn’t about religion as much as it was about providing a structure for learning that drove our decision.
My daughter was a complete outcast in this school. She didn’t fit in and was tormented daily by the other kids. The admins, tried to put her on ADD meds, and we resolved to pull her out. We lied about where we lived and placed her, in sixth grade, at a public school in Potomac MD.
She was tested and was well ahead of the public school standards. I’m lucky. We NEVER had to push her to do her homework. She was in AP classes throughout HS and got straight “A’s”.
I could go on, but if you ask my daughter today what had the most influence on her education, she would say “the Sisters”.
I’d like to think that I had a bigger role. She might say it was me. Her mom is/was an awesome mother. Always talking, always challenging everything that came their way.
She is extremely Conservative. I mean Ann Coulter conservative. I don’t think she has ever read Coulter. While both her parents are conservative, we never discussed politics, ever. She formed her own opinions.
Common Core seeks to eliminate a child’s ability to think for themselves.
They are systematically removing (at older ages) abstraction from the learning process. It removes context from history. It takes young kids that are not yet capable of abstract thinking and attempts to force them to concrete concepts that are still unresolved.
Common Core actually gets even more sinister.
As a young child develops the ability for abstract thinking, Common Core reverts to concrete.
It is at this stage of a child’s development that they attempt to make the abstract concrete.
My conclusions still remain firm. It is the very foundation that is rotten. Government schools are godless, single-payer, socialist entitlements. Nothing good can come from that. They are working exactly as the progressives of the 1800s planned. it only took one to three generations of SS schooling to give the nation Wilson and two Roosevelts and it's been worsening ever since. Common Core is merely the latest outrage.
Yes, your daughter survived, but her votes and those of homeschoolers will be swamped by those who were government indoctrinated.