Common Core is fucking with your children.

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My girlfriend is an elementary school teacher. Most kids are retarded because their parents are retarded and also not married, thus depriving the little maggots of a stable home life and perpetuating a heartbreaking cycle. By the time she gets a hold of those kids its too late in many respects to fix them, they just don't see the need to pay attention and teachers have no real authority. Common Core doesn't matter, she's getting the same results as before.

Of course, we're both white and therefore horrible people who just don't understand what it's like on da streetz and really can't judge because we all don't know them, pattern recognition is for babies, etc.

Common Core probably works great on kids whose parents give enough of a poo poo, guys. There are other societal factors making for retarded Americans. Common Core is a good try, honestly, but the home life makes a far, far bigger impact on children's learning.

No songs on the radio about reading books and poo poo, though. However, bands will make her dance. Don't let anyone tell you that isn't an important message for the kids!

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Rhonyn Peacemaker posted:

NPR did a report on common core math this morning. Kids love it. Teachers say the transition was hard, but kids learning it say it is way easier.

Shocking. Looks like I'm still right.

White kids with married parents?

# ¿ May 27, 2014 17:42

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Rhonyn Peacemaker posted:

It sounded like all poor and hispanic.

But married parents, all snark aside? Latinos have good family structure and try to get better things for their kids than they had. I'm told that it makes a huge difference in academic success, while children raised by children don't really know how to motivate the newer ones.

This isn't really a line of thought about Common Core at this point, really, but my theory is that Common Core is fine anyway, it's just the societal factors that are the problems with the uneducated younger generations, not their inability to grasp a new learning method.

Again, all my info comes from a Chicago public school teacher from an underperforming school who is frustrated that she can't do better.

I'll just shut up now I guess I'm not really contributing to this furor over the New Math. What's the deal with X and why do I need to solve for it, anyway?

# ¿ May 27, 2014 19:37

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Keith Stone posted:

I won't claim to have read all 18 pages of this thread because, well....gawddamn.

I think one complaint to common core is what we run into here in Virginia. Virginia doesn't do Common Core because we have a similar system called Standards of Learning. The problem with SoL (poo poo outta luck) is that the SoLs dictate what is taught, no more and no less.

Teachers here in VA teach to the SoLs and after that they give up. You're not getting ahead, you're not learning new things. You get SoL and that's that. SoLs control funding and school accreditation. How your school performs on these tests is all anyone cares about. Little Johnny will be a poet but sucks at math? He's an idiot and threatens the well being of the rest of the school.

These sorts of educational standardization really does just produce standardization. Instead of this becoming the minimum acceptable level of educational performance it's the whole and complete target.

Yeah. My girlfriend teaches third grade for CPS, a big testing year. All management really care about is those tests and the resulting funding for third graders.

Third grade is a year the kids can Actually Fail and have to repeat.

# ¿ May 30, 2014 19:02

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