Date: September 19, 2013 To: Governor Nathan Deal 206 Washington St. 111 State Capitol Atlanta, GA 30334 Re: Common Core Good Morning, first off I would like to introduce myself. I am a constituent (name removed for confidentiality). I am a resident of East Cobb and my daughter attends an elementary school in Cobb County. I am a CFO for a local company and have been in the accounting field for 15 years. We have been a resident of East Cobb since 2012 and I have lived in Georgia since birth. I am sending you this letter today as I am very concerned and unpleased with the new Common Core Standards that the state of Georgia has decided to mandate. I am asking that you please remove the Common Core Standards from the state of Georgia and save the education of our children while you still can. I would like to also tell you a little bit about my daughter. She is a very intelligent, strong willed, caring and motivated child. She was tested in 1st grade for the advanced learning class placement. She tested well and has been in the advanced class since 1st grade. She is now in 3rd grade. She had a great education in kindergarten and first grade. She excelled beyond my expectations. She enjoyed every minute of school. She loved math and she loved to read. She was very eager to learn anything that anyone could throw her way. Sadly this has all changed with the Common Core Standards. It started last year in her 2nd grade class. She came home many days in tears because she no longer understood the work she was being assigned (specifically math). We would sit down at the table as we did every night to review what she had learned that day and to review and complete her homework. The math she showed me was simple math at least it used to be but the way they asked her to solve the problem was horrendous. I remember in 2nd grade I was able to complete triple digit addition and subtraction. I could even do multiplication. This is not the case anymore since Common Core has been introduced. My daughter is being shown a method of math that not even I, a CFO, can help her with. She is being shown how to break down numbers in a way that makes no sense. I had to send her back to school on many occasions with her homework in-complete along with a note to the teacher that I was not able to help her with this new method. My daughter came home on several occasions stating that the teacher had told the whole class that none of the parents were able to help any of the kids with their homework. This to me is a problem and a huge red flag. I was hopeful as we began 3rd grade that things would be different, that things would go back to where the kids were learning what they needed to learn to excel to their fullest potential. Unfortunately, they have not. In fact they are much worse. I went to the open house to hear what my daughter’s teacher was planning to teach this year. Of course she was a huge cheerleader for the Common Core. I raised my hand to ask her some questions and to bring up the subject of how we can help our children. As I was voicing my concerns on the Common Core many parents around me were shaking their heads in agreement. The teacher could not answer my questions. I was told that they were going to teach both ways and just wait and see because it is going to be great. I am still waiting but not seeing. I have met with the principal and the math supervisor. I brought up all of my concerns. I told them that my daughter in 3rd grade can’t add or subtract double or triple digits. Their response was yes she can, they all learned that by the end of 2nd grade. I told them my daughter does not know what borrowing and... continue...
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