Posted on 05/22/2013 6:00:19 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Common Core hearing today in Madison. It looks like it will be stacked in favor of Common Core. Those interested in attending should know that signs, and such, are not allowed in the hearing rooms. HOWEVER, T shirts are allowed.
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Federal courts strongly rule that education is a state responsibility. Progressives hate that. So, since Jimma Carter and his “Dept. of Education” the camel has been sticking it’s nose deeper and deeper into the tent: Special Ed; Public Law 94-142; Americans with Disability; Drug Free Schools; No Child Left behind and now Common Core. Saddest thing is all of these are unfunded or under-funded mandates and the stupid damn governors don’t realize they’re all just settling for common mediocrity instead of striving for exceptional achievement for their states. Everybody gets better when there’s competition. Nobody thrives under a system.
My wife is a teacher in Illinois.
The CC is going to be a problem, but it is aimed at addressing some real structural problems. For instance, there are local elementary schools that don’t teach math. At all.
The CC was set up to deal with that. However, I suspect it will only lead to more cheating by the teachers on the standardized tests. On the Iowa side of the river, there is a scandal involving the district wanting to take the tests away from teachers and proctor them by an outside group. The county knows that the teachers are cheating, but doesn’t want to upset the Machine.
Stay out of the schools.
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Here are some sample second grade spelling words: daughter, nephew, business, neighborhood, enough, prophet, and profit
Here are some sample second grade vocab:extravaganza, diligent, tedious, feasible, fragrant, correspond, accolade, archaic, semblance, dappled, and habitat.
Here is a sample second grade math question from October. It needs to be answered without using division or multiplication. There are 150 pencils. Ten pencils in each box. How many boxes of pencils are there?
I don't think common core can fairly be described as mediocrity. Look at the sample second grade work I posted above. It's ridiculous. Maybe 1/3 of all second graders can do that work, and many of them will only be able to do it if their after school life suffers. Our grandson is probably high middle in terms of intelligence. Ordinarily we would expect him to get perfect scores on second grade reading and vocab tests. But there's no way he can do that unless he loses some of his childhood. Absolutely not worth it. There'll be time to learn how to spell business and daughter in fourth grade, where those spelling words belong.
And if they want some kids to learn this stuff, I have no problem with that. Some of my own kids, my girls especially, would have had no problem with this work in second grade. But to take this work and pretend that an entire second grade classroom can learn it, is ridiculous.
just another power grab by the federal government to take over schools...this is only the first part of its implementation...global warming, school breakfast, liberaly ideology are already in the schools.
Can you tell me the source of your information? Are there more sample questions at this site? I am trying to gather some information for a parent whose children go to a private Catholic school that is throwing out their curriculum to go with the Common Core curriculum.
Wow. Why pay big bucks for Catholic school if your kids will just be dumbed down and brainwashed like the regular public school kids?
The source of my information is my grandson’s homework. My grandson attends a parochial school in the Philadelphia archdiocese.
The Catholic Schools in the Philadelphia archdiocese are Common Core.
The Common Core is a nightmare, but many of the teachers are Democrats and they don’t see this.
Sure, there will be some 1st graders who would not have a problem doing these math problems. But I am afraid that this new curriculum will set up many more for failure. It is going to be a very destructive experiment on our nation's children, and the fact that private as well as public schools are adopting the curriculum does not bode well.
Students will learn to be illiterate and unaware of literature.
Insulation guidelines as reading. C’mon.
Good grief! I’d fail that work sheet for sure. In the first place, I would consider the edge of the circle a line!
I wonder if this is what happened to my granddaughter who was enrolled in a Catholic school in VA? Her math scores declined so precipitously after 2 years in Catholic school that my daughter pulled her out and sent her back to public school even though my daughter is the music teacher in the Catholic school (very awkward.) To catch up, my granddaughter has had to spend a full year in Mathnasium, a 2 x per week math tutoring program at $200 per month.
My granddaughter tolerates Mathnasium, but doesn’t really like it. The interesting thing is that her Mathnasium classes are full of Asian students who go there “for fun”, not because they are behind in any way.
My wife has already told our grandson that this summer he'll be learning his multiplication tables because there'll be no time to learn them next school year. Third grade math homework used to be to memorize those times tables but we're worried next year will be expanding upon topics already brought up in second grade - median, mode, and range, shapes and their vertices, comparing fractions, etc. We're pretty fortunate that our grandson is pretty good at Math and so most of this work is ok for him, but we're not taking any chances with next year. If third grade is anything like second, there will be no time to memorize times tables after school and still maintain his little kid-ness.
The effort to remove multipication table memorization from the curriculum began back in the ‘70s in my experience. My kids had a 3rd/4th grade teacher who swore the parents to secrecy that she was teaching the kids multiplication tables by memory. She told us that she’d lose her job if the principal and the school board found out. This was in CA.
I don’t know if the situation was really that dire, but all of the parents wanted their kids in her class, and the kids just loved her.
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