My face to face experience with Common Core
Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 1 month ago to Education
Earlier this evening, I attended my daughter's parent/teacher conferences. The first one was with her math teacher.
It started off well enough; my daughter is doing very well in his class, no issues. Well, he brings up that tomorrow, he has to teach the kids about baseball. HAS to. Then he says there will be some sort of "test" in an assembly type situation on Friday. I ask if the reason for teaching about baseball has to do with geometry, or something else math related. He said, no. Nothing whatsoever. I in turn ask if this has something to do with Common Core. Yes, it does is his reply.
Then he told me that on the assessments the kids took last week, they had "problems" in which they had to draw an answer. Not do a math computation. Draw. He also said there was trigonometry on the test. These are 8th graders. They haven't learned trig yet! I asked how that was supposed to assess any sort of understanding, when they hadn't even learned it? He said he thought it was ridiculous, and a huge waste of time.
So I ask what does your teaching the kids about baseball have to do with math? Nothing. Here's the kicker; he then tells me he's not allowed to talk about Common Core. NOT ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT IT!? I am ready to lose it! I plan on being on the phone with as many of my state lawmakers as possible tomorrow. I need some more answers.
It started off well enough; my daughter is doing very well in his class, no issues. Well, he brings up that tomorrow, he has to teach the kids about baseball. HAS to. Then he says there will be some sort of "test" in an assembly type situation on Friday. I ask if the reason for teaching about baseball has to do with geometry, or something else math related. He said, no. Nothing whatsoever. I in turn ask if this has something to do with Common Core. Yes, it does is his reply.
Then he told me that on the assessments the kids took last week, they had "problems" in which they had to draw an answer. Not do a math computation. Draw. He also said there was trigonometry on the test. These are 8th graders. They haven't learned trig yet! I asked how that was supposed to assess any sort of understanding, when they hadn't even learned it? He said he thought it was ridiculous, and a huge waste of time.
So I ask what does your teaching the kids about baseball have to do with math? Nothing. Here's the kicker; he then tells me he's not allowed to talk about Common Core. NOT ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT IT!? I am ready to lose it! I plan on being on the phone with as many of my state lawmakers as possible tomorrow. I need some more answers.
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I know I've made comments defending public school in the past, but that was under the assumption that public schools were providing good curriculum to their students. If they're not, well, that changes things completely...
This has a list of all the groups fighting CC in every state. http://truthinamericaneducation.com/abou...
http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/
Invisible Serfs Rubin Eubanks is an author and an attorney. She is doing a deep investigation into who is behind the Soviet psychological experiment we know as common core. Her book is called "Credentialed To Destroy: How and Why Education became a weapon."
And don't forget the deliberate dumbing down.com: http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/ind...
There you go. It's a lot of information, so take your time &; give 'em hell.
At least you are awake enough to see it.
Supporters of Common Core are falsely of the belief that studying "trig" in the 8th grade will teach young people to compete in the "global marketplace." But all it does teach them is to be unimaginative robots in service to collective systems and statist governments without question. It is really bad stuff.
My daughter's English teacher is recommending my daughter for honors English next year. One of the reasons she gave was that it's not going to be focused on argumentative writing, but more on creative writing, which she said my daughter excels at. She wants her to be challenged, not compartmentalized. An interesting evening, I must say...