Mike Warner posted in Black Robe Reg 5:02am Aug 13 Note: This will apply to home school too! We all have an interest in stopping common core! Link at the end has info about Tennessee State Senate Review you can participate in on the September 19th & 20th NY joins KY as Common Core test failures mount across the nation Common Core Grade Report: Kentucky- FAIL New York- FAIL Tennessee- Pending but expected to fail. New York has now joined Kentucky this week in announcing the dismal failure of Common Core in their states. The end of year assessment tests are in and it aint purdy! New York reports only 31 percent are competent on assessment tests using Common Core as it’s standard. Some New York school districts have reported only a 5 percent competency rate. Similar scores for Kentucky. Dismal by all standards. If this were an domestic animal, my daddy would have taken it out in the woods and shot it…….in the head…….twice!!! Conclusion and realization? Common Core aint working and it comes as no surprise to those that saw this coming. Common Core really is a hyped up mess, make up dripping down her face and looking for a prom date….and one heel broken and an ugly date. Besides being a top down nationalization of our schools, it is mostly unproven and promotes equalization of all students by teaching down to the lowest denominator. Think about that for a moment. Dumbing down to the lowest denominator? Which child from your childhood comes to mind, never mind, it’s too visual right now, I’m about to go hug my higher than the standard child and hang on for dear life to prevent the slide backward. It is the dumbing down of our school system, our children. It is the socialist model. Who would have thought that revamping math to an unrecognizable entity, shifting a focus to reading technical manuals instead of the literary masters while erasing multiple choice for essay answers would raise scores? I surely didnt! Supporters of Common Core are saying it will take about 5 years to get it right and see tests improve. 5 years? A whole generation of students finish 8th grade and graduate before we get it right? In the meantime a student dumb as a box of rocks tries to get into college , can’t pass the exam, then gets a job where he can’t even read the men’s bathroom sign or fill out a job application or form a complete sentence. What a nice trade we have brokered? Parents and teachers should be sideways over this. This curriculum, ie new common core standards were implemented without a smidgen of shared information.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:53:58 +0000