Ohio drops PARCC testing (Hated Common Core Testing Ended; Kasich Signs)

Galion Inquirer ^ | July 1st, 2015

[xzins]

Ohio dropped the PARCC Common Core testing consortium Tuesday night after a series of complaints from educators and parents, including concerns from north central Ohio.

Gov. John Kasich signed a compromise two-year budget which concurred with Ohio Senate and House leaders that the Math and English exams would end in Ohio.

According to a report, Ohio spent $26 million in online and print testing last year.

“The people of the state of Ohio seem to have spoken loudly that they don’t want the PARCC,” State Sen. Peggy Lehner told reporters.

[xzins]

Nonsensical testing didn’t cover subject areas taught and consumed huge amounts of time.

[Jim from C-Town]

Now they should drop the entire Common Core debacle all together and go back to phonics and standard math.

[knarf]

But common core is still the process that be ... right ?

[xzins]

All the school districts have spent a fortune buying new textbooks based on common core. It’s not so different when dealing with Algebra or Trig, but it’s in the elementary, and in the humanities, arts, and social sciences that it asks for nutso math methods or re-writes truth.

I think those books will be with us for an entire text cycle. Depending on the wealth of the district that’s anything from 5 to 10 years.

[Jim from C-Town]

Shit can them and bring the old ones out of the closets and distribute them.

The texts are mostly garbage and my kids the ones my kids received are all take home one time use books. Work books, no hard cover returnables.

Besides when did a school system ever balk at spending money on stupid. Perhaps they can spend some of their money on smart.

[xzins]

They were in the dumpster a long time ago around here

[buckalfa]

"But common core is still the process that be ... right ?"

Not sure about Ohio, but South Carolina, with much fanfare, directed its state board of education to drop common core and come up with their own replacement, which in the end, was the common core curriculum.

[goodwithagun]

The article says nothing about AIR, Ohio’s standardized social studies and science tests that are modeled after the two PARRC exam subjects: English and math.

It doesn’t matter. High stakes online testing is here. Kasich and others need legislation that carves out the root cause and not just the visible problem.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Whoops.

[grania]

FWIW, Trig has almost disappeared in modern math curriculums.

The fact that money was spent on those books is not a reason to use them. Children's minds are more important than money. Any decent teacher can teach the basics without a textbook, especially now with the availability of online free sources such as Kahn Academy and Cool Math academic lessons.

I have no respect for teacher who went along with Common Core without objection.

[SunkenCiv]

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[xzins]

My wife teaches trig, pre-calc, calc. For a while, she had the only calc class in the region. Now I think there are one or two more.

[xzins]

I agree. Nothing about the other testing. Kasich sends his girls to Christian school. I don’t know if that’s an independent or a Catholic.

[xzins]

ping

[Whenifhow]

Ohio Ping

Ohio dropped the PARCC Common Core testing consortium Tuesday night after a series of complaints from educators and parents, including concerns from north central Ohio.

Gov. John Kasich signed a compromise two-year budget which concurred with Ohio Senate and House leaders that the Math and English exams would end in Ohio.

[xzins]

•Waterboarding Worked (It Should Have Never Been Stopped) [2015]

Apparently, the CIA should switch from Waterboarding to PARCC testing. It's far worse torture. They'll be giving up al Zawahiri before we know it!!!

[SunkenCiv]

:’D

Jihadist: So, an inground pool. It’s to be waterboarding, infidel?

CIA: No, we’re forcing you to take Common Core PARCC testing.

Jihadist: Can I request wwaterboarding?

[Grampa Dave]

BOL!

A few years ago one of our younger relatives became the village idiot in math.

His parents got him in Kuman, and in a few months his teacher was getting math tests from two to three grades ahead of him to keep him challenged.

We found out that he had two years of Californiacator new math and the last year was the precursor to the current math excuse.

Years later he is still at the top of his class in math skills.

When he was having problems, his sister, two grades of ahead of him would come to school in the morning and find her home room/ his math teacher in tears, because she didn’t know how to present the math lessons for that day. Our younger relative would show her teacher how to present the so called new math.

That teacher’s reason for trying to teach math, she was the least in tenure.