Posted on 10/21/2014 8:41:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin
COSTA MESA (CBSLA.com) — A discussion over the controversial new curriculum, known as Common Core, got heated Monday night in Costa Mesa during a special meeting at the Orange County Board of Education.
Those on both sides of the initiative, which encompasses state standards, spoke out although no decision was reached during the meeting.
“Our job is to educate students. To look at both sides. And I think that that’s what Common Core wants you to do. Critical thinking,” said one attendee.
But even some teachers admit that no one really knows what Common Core is.
“I think it’s supposed to be standards that promote critical thinking in our students,” said the attendee. “If that’s what it is, then I fully support it and I would think everybody does.”
But Bridget Huso, a Huntington Beach parent, told KCAL9’s Stacey Butler that she blames Common Core for frustrating students and teachers alike.
“She would come home from school and say, ‘I’m stupid’ and ‘I don’t want to go to school,'” recalled Huso of her youngest daughter.
That’s when she made the decision to home-school her three youngest children.
“We need to stick with the basics. Why are we trying to re-create this new thing,” Huso said.
The next public hearing to discuss Common Core is scheduled for Nov. 17, Butler reported.
Just say no to Commie Core.
8th grade students in 1914 were far more knowledgeable than are high school graduates in 2014. Marxist contamination of the schools is to blame, by design. Google Yuri Besmenov to see how the USSR planned this invasion for decades, and won.
I've tried to read "their" website(s) and they sound like .. though different ... not so bad
Pure Orwellian doublespeak. Critical thinking eliminates things like the idiot logic used in Common Core.
This is just another way to eliminate the meaning of the words.
re: I really, really need some one syllable definition and argument pro and con , common core.
“One syllable definition argument pro & con”? Are you serious? A one syllable argument is an oxymoron. You can’t have an intelligent discussion of anything with one syllable.
How does one look at a math problem from "both sides"?
How does one look at correct English grammar from "both sides"?
How does one look at the ability to read from "both sides"?
How does one look at a FACT from "both sides"?
THESE are the things our schools are supposed to be teaching. Issues that have a "both sides" to them are for more advanced classes, which should only be taught once students have thoroughly learned "reading, writing and arithmetic".
I’m sure they don’t teach history from “both sides”.
Actually, oxymoron has 4 syllables...
;-)
Right. And that is yet another problem with “Common Core”.
Simple solution, just OUTLAW ALL PRIVATE SCHOOLS, watch them abolish this overnight.
A lot of the private schools nationwide are going along with Common Core. The Catholic schools certainly have, and many others as well. SAT & ACT are aligned with the Common Core standards & curriculum. Many private schools feel that they must do it or their students will not do well on the national tests.
I don’t know of a single Private School, Brentwood, Bel-Air... anywhere on the west side that subscribes to Commie Core.
Excellent post!
Thank God Shakespeare was better educated than students today.
Critical thinking skills cannot be built on a sand foundation where successful approximation at correct spelling is a satisfactory result and math problems become an exercise in breaking down the formula so it can be solved on the fingers rather than knowing math FACTS while applying the correct order of operations. Critical thinking allows you to use established facts to make sense of the world around you, not to create some alternate universe of unicorns pooping rainbow skittles across the sky.
Good post.
My sister-in-law’s Catholic school wants nothing to do with it.
That is good for your area.
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