This is being taught in 46 states! I know first hand and i will share my experience below. This new way of math It is a series of shortcuts that do not teach children the basic fundamentals of math. It is insane almost intentionally, Dumbing down our Youth. My first experience is when Sophie brought home a paper teaching her how to balance a check book! FIRST grade??? Really? I can barely do mine correctly. lol I wrote the teacher a quick note with questions such as, What is this curriculum, Its name please and bluntly asking, Are you teaching COMMON CORE? I also explained very firmly, that I was refusing to have her complete this, Ridiculous, age inappropriate assignment. She did write me back to say, Yes, that It was COMMON CORE. Only in WV, it is referred to as, Next Generation I had my second experience with the exact math shown in this video a month or so later. I know its my responsibility to know certain things about her schooling but this was crazy. I had NO clue how to help her. I was quite the baffled, not to mention embarrassed in front of my then, 6 year old. (Makes me wonder if that is how our government wants it because they have publicly said, Our children, are not our children they want to raise them the way they see fit) Whole other story there. hahaha Anyways, Parents never received any school notification. No heads up telling any of the parents of a curriculum change. Nothing! A blogger that i often read claims that States were told, That they would not be eligible for Race to the Top funding ($4.35 billion) unless they adopted the Common Core standards. Federal law prohibits the U.S. Department of Education from prescribing any curriculum, but in this case the Department figured out a clever way to evade the letter of the law. Forty-six states and the District of Columbia signed on, not because the Common Core standards were better than their own, but because they wanted a share of the federal cash. I do math the way most of us all do and It leads me to this, Wouldnt one think parents are going to have to take a class to be educated to assist them with their studies. You know so they dont seem to the children as, illiterate or STUPID? How many parents will? Oh wait... They wont! What is the purpose of raising the bar so high that many more students fail? Thanks for reading.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:42:15 +0000
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