Common core killed it.
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Former teacher: yes it did. Imagine going to cooking school to be a baker. Instead of starting you off to cake baking with a simple one layer cake or sheet pan cake, so that you learn proper technique, they start you off making a grand wedding cake. Of course you fail & feel inadequate. But don’t worry, you eventually work your way up to the basics.
That’s common core.
Somehow we got to the Moon, circumnavigated the globe, and split the atom with old school Math.
Yes, and Gates was behind common core. It has been an epic disaster