Monday, January 28, 2013

Missouri Education Watchdog: This is Why We Are Against Common Core Standards

Missouri Education Watchdog: This is Why We Are Against Common Core Standards:


This is Why We Are Against Common Core Standards

But I'm too young to read informational text.  I'm only in kindergarten.


Is this scenario coming soon to a kindergarten class in your school district?  Teachers are mandated to teach developmentally inappropriate standards, assessments and curricula to district students.  What do you think will happen?  Will endlessly assessing students in kindergarten make them more ready for the global workforce or will they dissolve in tears and view school as something to avoid at all costs? 

THIS is what teachers, parents, school board members and legislators need to understand about Common Core standards.  When students implode, there is nothing your school can do.  Schools can't subtract