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The following is a letter written on a closed site that I have permission to share. I will leave it anonymous but I want to say that the person who wrote it is a successful MECHANICAL ENGINEER with a math minor, a wonderful parent, an involved school and community member, and a caring friend to many. This common core issue is frustrating families. I hate to blow up my page with negativity but what i want to express is that the parents fighting this are not negative people. We are the parents who are at the schools year after year, we are the parents at extracurricular activities, we are with these our kids at home and other children in the community in our daily lives. We care for our children and we know that this is destructive to them. Growing up when we were struggling we did things like prepare before the school week by reading the lessons ahead, we reviewed during the week as the lessons began, and we studied for the test with more review. It taught us to be prepared, stay on task, and to work hard to improve. Our children DO NOT EVEN HAVE TEXTBOOKS. Many of my friends, myself included, had A and B students who are struggling day in and day out. This curriculum is failing children and we are left just to watch without resources to help them. If you are a parent please get involved. Most of my friends involved are people like me who never want to be disagreeable, who only aim to help and stay positive and supportive, and who want to help and be involved not fight and argue. Please read the letter below... I hope it shines a light on what this highly educated, very involved member of our South Lake Charles community is going through. It is effecting our childrens education, our home lives, our childrens extracurricular lives, and our family time. Read below... Please get involved if you feel necessary..... From: Anonymous I would like to start by saying that we love our teachers and they are doing their best with the tools they have been given. I have tried to be patient and understand Common Core (as my fourth grader really started getting introduced to it last year-her teachers taught two methods-traditional and Common Core). The further we get into this school year, the more I doubt the curriculum and the methods used to teach our children, especially my 2nd grader. I spend a couple of hours on the internet studying each night to help my children with their homework, specifically math. My children are in 7th, 5th, and 2nd grades. I have a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering with a minor in math and I just do not understand why we would teach our children using these methods. In my opinion, outside of learning to read, math is the most critical subject taught in school. Math is something every person will use every day of their lives. All three of my children are well behaved honor/banner roll students and we work hard to maintain those high standards. Common Core is taking away my ability to help my children be successful. Instead, it is making them more frustrated and less interested in what they are learning. Teachers are doing the best they can with what they are given. My children have not had to retest on anything they have been given yet but “retests” are being given to allow children to be successful. This can only mean that this curriculum is a FAILURE, regardless of the reasons that are being discussed and the results being reported will all be lies. 1. If the teachers have not been properly prepared, this curriculum is a failure. 2. If the parents cannot understand or find proper materials to assist their children at home, this curriculum is a failure. 3. If each student does not have books, workbooks, or resources to bring home for every subject, this curriculum is a failure. 4. If the state did not prepare parents or consider the parents’ concerns, this curriculum is doomed to failure. 5. If the state did not roll this program out correctly, the curriculum is still a failure. 6. The lawsuits that come from implementing this program and the money that is being spent on administrators, BESE board members, superintendents, etc. to travel all over the state and country to figure out how to make this curriculum succeed, is an even larger failure. In my line of work, I would never move forward with a project when the risks are just too high. Making a decision that would negatively impact the public would get me fired. The school system should be held to the same standards. I want to be sure that you understand that regardless of what our school administrators are reporting, that I am very upset and want Common Core to be eliminated immediately. I have generally been happy with the public school system. I am sad to say that I have to begin looking into the private school system for my children’s best interests. I feel as though the public school system is failing our children and our parents. Those that can afford the private school costs will eventually give in and move their children. What will be left are disgruntled parents and children that will eventually lose the desire to fight this battle. Please let me know what the parish’s intentions are on the Common Core Disaster. Because I have known you since high school, I feel that I can tell you what is on my mind without using any filters or flowery words. You have dedicated your working career to educating our children and I know that you want what is in their best interests. Thank you for taking the time to hear what I have to say.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:02:21 +0000

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