“When you assume, you make a CCSS of you and me”
The Common Core is laden with serious problems, and it makes me want to vomit, but not until after I school some folks, out of the loop. I won’t even bring up the fact that it’s (as TeacherX) likes to point out) a $14 billion “Trojan horse for more testing.”
A week before school started and I had to sit through a horrible professional development that was put together by our “network literacy specialist” who, when I asked her where she got the document she responded that ” it was something I got from a friend.” As if that’s good enough. Thank you for your honesty in describing how you waste my time with such little forethought.
I was so livid about the content and methods, I posted pics to these to social media with the comment. please note the description for the “close reading” strategy:
The text below (Dees) was given to teachers as professional development on literacy strategies for CCSS. The disposition we take is that this should be text-dependent reading, un-contextualized (second pic). This document expounding the virtues of vulture capitalism and philanthropic colonialism is meant to be read w/o understanding all the grief those two practices have caused in the world and more intimately in our Chicago communities. This is why educators must fight the common core animal head on. No text is withoutCONtext.
In the margin, I wrote, “If background knowledge is secondary, then why pay